“Diagnosing Difference,” a groundbreaking film is the first to explore the impact of GID on people who identify on the trans spectrum will be show in San Francisco on August 13th at The Center.

From the start, you know this is a deliberate Reboot of the Trek lore. Whether or not Paramount decides to greenlight a new TV vehice or just produce more Movies with this ensemble, the changes very much bring this 43 year old series up to date.

Angela Brooks takes a look at “Out at the Wedding.”

Of all the “Real World” seasons, no one cast member has made more of a positive impact than “Real World: San Francisco’s” Pedro Zamora. His story touched millions of viewers, his courage educated many Americans and his life changed the MTV generation.

Fathom, CARE and ONE are proud to present a one-night event featuring the acclaimed documentary “A Powerful Noise,” (which we have glowingly praised) followed by a live town hall discussion with leading humanitarian experts and activists. The event, taking place in 450 movie theatres nationwide, celebrates International Women’s Day and highlights the important role that women play in bringing lasting solutions to global poverty. Broadcast live from New York City, this inspiring event will be broadcast to movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT and tape delayed at 8PM PT and 7PM in Hawaii.

The live panel will include former U.S. Secretary of State and Principal of The Albright Group LLC Madeleine K. Albright, actress and activist Natalie Portman, CARE president and CEO Dr. Helene Gayle; CARE advocate for maternal health and contributing editor for Marie Claire, Christy Turlington Burns; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, New York Times columnist and acclaimed author Nicholas Kristof. Check back for additional panelist participants by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or www.APowerfulNoise.org for more information and to purchase tickets to this One Night Event.

On Saturday, February 21st, at 8P EST, our dear friend and Out Impact supporter Sirius OutQ’s and out comedian, Keith Price’s Ebony Chunky Love: Bitch can’t get a date! debuts on LOGO! We have reviewed Ebony Chunky Love, and we highly endorse this film. We aren’t the only one with mad love for Ebony Chunky Love, they have been getting a lot of festival coverage, including San Diego’s Black Film Festival recently awarded Ebony Chunky Love the best LGBT film this year.

Keith is the first out and African-American satellite radio personality, and in Ebony Chunky Love recounts his experiences growing up in Texas and his current dating life in New York. This candid documentary produced by our good friend and Out Impact supporter, Lonnie Tristan Renteria, combines Keith’s stand-up act along with interviews to offer a funny and intelligent commentary on issues of family dynamics, class, race, and body image in the gay community.

Recently in October, we interviewed Director Justin Dillon from Call & Response, the feature rockumentary exposing the truth about modern day slavery:

BW: What drove you to create the movie Call + Response?

Justin: The issue that came in the full focus for me when I was traveling abroad and I learned about the issue [of slavery] by reading a couple of newspaper articles here in the States, particularly a New York Times Magazine Article called “The Girls Next Door.” It talked about this cartel that was luring young girls and women from Eastern countries with opportunities to be waitresses, or even something glamorous like being a model in the West. They would set up modeling agencies in these countries, pay their way to the West, get their passport, everything they’d need; then they would force them through Mexico City “on their way to the States” and there the cartel would pick them up from the airport and take them to a brothel and break their will sexually.

After they have been properly broken, then they would be trafficked into the United States and put into brothels. It’s so unbelievable, it sounded like a movie. Fast-forward three months later, I was in Russia playing music and talking to people and there were all these girls around telling me the same stories about getting all these offers to come to the West to be a model. I started telling them, ‘Do you guys know about human trafficking? Do you know what’s going on?’ None of them would believe me, and that’s what was so disheartening. I told these girls exactly what was going on, but they weren’t having it.

Call + Response, the first rockumentary of it’s kind, reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. A in-depth look from activists of different professions in the entertainment, news and academic fields, lend their voice, talent and share their stories to why we should all answer the call to end this horrid system of manipulation, sexual slavery, child slavery, slavery of dependence of drugs, and to restore the basic human rights of these children, men and women all over the world who are being bought and sold, raped and drugged, everyday.

Rarely do films make such a impact on me that I would consider classifying a documentary as “required viewing” – A Powerful Noise is one of my most favorite exceptions.

Shelia C. Johnson presents, A Powerful Noise, and the film is directed by Scott Thigpen and Tom Cappello. This amazing movie focuses on three women in different regions of the world, fighting and empowering others against the fight against AIDS while fighting it themselves, poverty, education and equal rights for women.

HE’S 2 SEXY

Steve Coogan plays it straight – kinda – in the irreverent and outrageous Outfest Award-winner, Hamlet 2

by Brandon Voss

With the queer premise of an offbeat high school drama teacher putting on a controversial musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy featuring song titles like “Rock Me Sexy Jesus” and “Gay as the Day is Long,” is it any wonder why Hamlet 2 earned the Audience Award at July’s Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles?