Outerlands

Source: Coccinelle Film

‘Outerlands’

US writer-director Elena Oxman’s Outerlands will be the first recipiint of the Queer Media Society (QMS) award for the best queer feature film screening at this year’s Munich International Film Festival, which is taking place this week in Germany.

Outerlands stars Asia Kate Dillon as Cass, who juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server and party drug dealer. After a one-night stand with a co-worker, Cass agrees to watch her daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood.

The award comes with a €4,000 cash prize. It was sponsored by Warner Bros. Discovery with support from the Bavarian regional film fund FFF Bayern and the Schachtsiek Family Foundation.

The film premiered at SXSW in March; Italy’s Coccinelle Film Sales is handling sales.

“[Outerlands] joins the ranks of queer film stories in which outsiders become heroes,” said jury president, the German film director Angelina Maccarone. “We were witnesses of a very personal journey that is also highly political, especially in times of a reactionary backlash.”

The film is screening in the festival this week, with Oxman in attendance.

The award was announced on Monday evening after a day of panel discussions at the festival’s Beergarden Convention dedicated to the promotion of diversity in the international film industry.

Maccarone’s jury, gave an honorary mention to the Brazilian TV series Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Automatically by Marcelo Gomes and Carol Minem which had its world premiere in the festival’s Spotlight section.

The Queer Media Society, was launched in Berlin in 2018 to promote greater visibility and representation of LGBTQIA+ content and characters in all media productions.

 

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