Winnipeg and Sweden Add ‘Judas Kiss’ to Festival Schedules

A BIG DAY for film festival news: Judas Kiss is slated to screen at two international festivals — Winnipeg, Canada’s, Reel Pride Film Festival, and the mainstream Filmfestival Flimmer in historic Norrköping, Sweden.

“We’re thrilled that Judas Kiss is starting to book more festivals outside the United States,” said writer-producer Carlos Pedraza. “Its theme of redemption has a universal appeal.”

This year is the 18th for the Winnipeg, Manitoba, festival, one of North America’s longest-running LGBT events and the 13th for the Swedish fest, one of southeast Sweden’s biggest cinema events.

DATES

Judas Kiss screens at the Winnipeg Reel Pride Film Festival on Saturday, October 8, at 7 p.m., at the Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Ave., in Osborne Village. A Q&A and reception will follow the screening featuring star Charlie David. Tickets are $8.
Norrköping Filmfestival Flimmer will screen the film during its run from September 30 to October 9. The Screenings page and Facebook Event Page will be updated when Flimmer announces its schedule.

Norrköping is the third European festival booked to date, after Germany and Belgium; Winnipeg is the second in Canada, following Vancouver.

FLIMMER IS southeast Sweden’s biggest independent film organisation and is based in Norrköping, a city steeped in tradition and history as an industrial center. Flimmer operates the Norrkoping Filmfestival Flimmer each autumn, as well as a popular traveling open-air cinema series in the rest of the year around Sweden, the biggest event of its kind in the country.

THE WINNIPEG Gay and Lesbian Film Society began producing film events in 1985, bringing to Manitoba audiences gay and lesbian films otherwise unavailable there. The first film festival was produced in 1987 as a joint project of the society and Plug In, Inc., and was named Counterparts. All the festivals since have been produced by the Society. By 2000 the festivals were named Reel Pride.

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