Emergency Broadcast System: Screening, party & prize

Three pieces of great news for The Glitter Emergency and all who had a hand in making it - First, Saturday night there's a screening at the Hypnodrome. Second, next month brings a private benefit screening (you're invited) at a beautiful home where much of the film was shot. Third, the film won a prize - Best Experimental Film at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. Details follow:

HYPNODROME SCREENING - AUG 28

The Glitter Emergency proudly stars Rumi Missabu, an original member of the legendary Cockettes, as one of the Peg-Leg Ballerina's Depraved Evil Stepsisters (opposite Eric Glaser). Saturday's screening will be part of a mini Rumi festival following her return to the long-running (and terrific) revival of the Cockettes musical Pearls Over Shanghai at the Hypnodrome, possibly the coolest theater in San Francisco. I will accompany Glitter live, playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. It will also be the first screening of a major new edit that I'm very excited about.

Here are the details:

A Special Evening of New Films starring Cockette Rumi

Saturday, August 28, 10:30 p.m.

The Hypnodrome - 575 10th Street (btwn. Bryant & Division)

• Uncle Bob, directed by Robert Oppel
• The Glitter Emergency
• Interiors, directed by David Riley

PRIVATE BENEFIT SCREENING - SEPT 12

The Glitter Emergency has no better friends than my neighbors Mavis and Carole - they helped this film every step of the way. They appear in the film in high drag. They let us take over their beautiful home on Liberty Hill to shoot the opening balcony scene and bedroom scenes between Peggy and Stringendo. They hosted a dinner table at the premiere. And now they're throwing this private benefit screening on Saturday, September 12th at 2 p.m. at their movie star of a house. We'll screen the film, I'll accompany it live, talk about the production and pass the hat (contributions are fully tax-deductible). The production is in significant financial debt, and I've had to suspend film festival submissions while I try to raise money. So if you can contribute anything at all and would enjoy a private screening of the film amid terribly hip and amusing people, email me at paulfesta@gmail.com and I'll give you the details for the 9/12 party.

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