A headliner among the more than 90 films from 30 countries is the panoramic, intimate documentary “Impresario,” which is about Frameline co-founder and legendary San Francisco filmmaker and showman Marc Huestis.
Frameline, the world’s biggest, longest-running festival of queer cinema, presents the 46th time from Thursday through June 26 with in-person screenings at a record number of Bay Area venues and a national streaming encore June 24-30.
Huestis used Super 8 film to make his early movies, and he took his film to Supervisor Harvey Milk’s Castro Camera shop for developing. At one point, Huestis had a spat with Milk over how the gay community should dress for Pride parades in the face of fundamentalist Anita Bryant’s wish to negatively exploit videos of the parade. Milk favored conformist suit-and-tie attire while Huestis strongly disagreed and backed an all-inclusive, come-as-you-are look.
Milk’s camera shop was also the scene of a notable accord, as it was there that Huestis met other up-and-coming filmmakers and proposed they form a gay film festival. That festival, which held its first screenings at a gay community center at 32 Page St., was established in 1977 as the Gay Film Festival of Super 8 Films and ultimately became known as the Frameline Film Festival.
“The liberation they were building on and inventing was toward a world they wanted to live in,” Molitor said. “He’s a frontline witness and participant in the tensions, struggles and joys of that. Of course, queer people in San Francisco had been doing work on gay and lesbian rights for some time, but in some areas they were starting from scratch. The formation of the first gay film festival was just one example of that, directly out of their creative impulses.
Huestis ranks Black, who received a thunderous reception from the audience at the Castro, as his runner-up favorite guest celebrity. “That was what was so special about the Castro — the audiences there are so embracing to these movie stars, some of whom everyone had forgotten,” Huestis said. “When I did Barbara Parkins of ‘The Valley of the Dolls,’ she came out to a huge ovation and said, ‘Who are you people, and where have you been my whole life?’”
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