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2023 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival

OCTOBER 12-15, 2023

IN PERSON & STREAMING

Damn These Heels Film Festival explores LGBTQ+ issues, ideas, and art through dramatic and documentary films from around the world. 

Utah Film Center connects people, stories, and ideas through film exhibition, artist support, and media arts education.

DTH 2023 SPECIAL GUEST: MISS COCO PERU

Damn These Heels is thrilled to welcome special guest, Miss Coco Peru, to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Festival’s 20th anniversary celebration! With 33 years in the business as a working drag queen, Coco offers an evening of inspired storytelling and song followed by a moderated discussion that includes audience engagement.

TICKET INFO
October 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Jeanné Wagner Theatre at the Rose Wagner
Starting at $10

UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EVENTS

Damn These Heels Film Festival

2023 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival

An “oasis in the desert,” Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival has been pushing boundaries for 20 years! Come celebrate the Festival’s 20th anniversary with us! In person October 12-15, 2023 at the Rose Wagner Theater in downtown Salt Lake City with limited films screening online on October 15-22.

October 12 to October 22, 2023

In Person | Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Damn These Heels Film Festival, Through the Lens

A Run for More

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter, but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

2023 Damn These Heels Opening Night Film

Featuring an in-person Q&A with the film’s subject, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, and local candidate, Sophia Hawes-Tingey, and Max Green from Equality Utah’s Political Action Committee, moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

October 12, 2023 at 7:00 pm

In Person | Jeanné Wagner Theatre

Black, Bold & Brilliant, Damn These Heels Film Festival

Kokomo City

In the wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary KOKOMO CITY, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City.

Featuring a Q&A by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team with director D. Smith.

October 14, 2023 at 5:30 pm

In Person | Jeanné Wagner Theatre

Black, Bold & Brilliant

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

After a man is killed by a zombie, his sister runs into an isolated house, where a group of people are holed up trying to figure out their escape from the flesh eaters.

Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team with Jose Manzo, Spy Hop’s Lead Film Mentor, and other cult film lovers and media historians to celebrate Halloween and Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead.

November 1, 2023 at 7:00 pm

In Person | The City Library

Through the Lens

Body Parts

Body Parts traces the evolution of “sex” on-screen from a woman’s perspective, exposing the uncomfortable realities behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes and celebrating the bold creators leading the way for change.

Featuring a Q&A moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer.

November 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm

In Person | The City Library

Black, Bold & Brilliant

Blurring the Color Line

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the Black and White narrative of America’s racial history

Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and members of our community who can speak to the history of Asian experiences regarding integration, immigration, and assimilation.

December 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm

In Person | The City Library

Through the Lens

Subject

Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented “golden era,” the film urges audiences to consider the impact on documentary participants – the good, the bad, and the complicated.

Featuring a Q&A moderated by KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio with film subject and producer Margaret Ratliff.

December 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm

In Person | The City Library

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