All cake aside, our picture about an undead couple screened in Italy on July 22nd during the 3rd Annual Some Prefer Cake Summer Film Festival in Bologna. The festival is dedicated to lesbian-themed short films. We got a nice request from Luki Massa, the art director of Fuoricampo, a lesbian organization, so we shipped off the DVD and hoped the audience got a kick out of it.

Cineslam in Vermont screened our vampire story on June 27th in Session 3. The best part is that it was shown in a barn on the Tree Frog Farm in Guilford, VT. I really wish we could have been there because it seemed like a blast complete with filmmaker forums, a pride dance and a barbeque.

And now “Love Sucks” heads to France! Secretly (although obviously not that secretly) I have a dream to be a successful filmmaker in France. After all, they have the best films there. Although a lot of Europe seems to be ahead of the game when it comes to indie film.

Our film will be showing at Cineffable Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival and we’re especially honored to be screened here not just for the location and the films, but for the theme, art exhibitions and performances. Here’s a little more about the festival:

The Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival, Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma, started in 1989.

The desire to organise a festival grew out of discontent and frustration with the Women’s Film Festival at Créteil: despite the fact that THE lesbian film always won the People’s Choice Award (prix du public) at Créteil, hardly any space was given to lesbian films and lesbian festival goers.

Over the years, Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma has grown in size and reputation. It has moved from venue to venue to accommodate the ever increasing interest and demands of the lesbian public. A public that has grown from a few hundred in the beginning, to 2000 in the year 2000.

Thanks to Oksana Milmeyster and the staff for giving us the opportunity!

We will be posting screening information as we receive it.

Dear Ingrid Jungermann & Sara Winters,

Thank you for your interest in our festival.
We feel honored to select your film LOVE SUCKS to the 8th Q! Film Festival.
I attach with this e-mail, the Official Confirmation Letter.
Please send the completed form as soon as possible.
Look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards,

Suryani Liauw

Q! Film Festival 2009
26 July – 5 August Jakarta
8 – 13 August Bali
www.qfilmfestival.org

We’ll keep you posted on the date and time!

Next stop for “Love Sucks?” Hartford, CT, for the Out Film CT Gay & Lesbian Film Festival! Looks like we’re screening there on May 24. More details to come, so check out Festivals & Screenings soon for the specifics.

For the record (because there is one), our film also screened at two other locations in Australia: The Bendigo Queer Film Festival in Victoria and the Tropical Alternative Film Festival.

Ingrid’s going to be in North Carolina for the summer but word on the street is Sara miiiiiight just take a road trip to Hartford for the Connecticut premiere. Could be a rumor, though. You know celebrity gossip – never know what to believe.

In other news, we got screener requests from the MIX Milano Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Italy), the OutView Film Festival (Athens, Greece) and the Q! Film Festival (Indonesia), so we’ll be sending DVDs out as fast as our little walking dead legs will carry us.

For full details of the screening, go to Festivals & Screenings.

In other news Down Under, our film will be showing Tropic Alernative Film Festival in Cairnes, Australia. We’ll post more information as we receive it. Sort of boggles my mind that our little film has played in four festivals in three countries!

“I curate a tour of the MQFF highlights to queer film starved folk in other parts of Australia, and I’d love to be able to send LOVE SUCKS to a couple of locations in rural Victoria and Far North Queensland for a screening. Dates are throughout April and start of May (approx 5 screenings altogether).”

So, we get to travel around Australia without really traveling around Australia. Thanks to MQFF and Lisa.

Shipped off several DVDs yesterday to gay and lesbian film festivals in Tel Aviv (Israel), Toronto, Torino (Italy) and Oslo (Norway). Our most recent screener request was from the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals (which would be very special to me because I was born and raised in Florida), so we applied via withoutabox and will ship that off shortly. 

I also sent off my play, “The Art of Leaving,” to New Georges Theatre in New York and to a friend in Wilmington, NC, to see if I can generate any interest in producing a theater production. I’m going to plug myself again for news like this assuming people are as interested in me as I am. And believeyoume, I am interested in me (just ask my friends): www.ingridjungermann.wordpress.com.