Fairy Fantastic! Presents: Friends of Dorothy as part of Stonewall 50: A Gender Inclusive Celebration for Families at the Andy Warhol Museum at 11am on Saturday June 29. Our program, Friends of Dorothy is a special celebratory program of nine short animated and live action films on difference-affirming, gender creative and anti-bullying themes. Why are … Read More
Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver present two curated Fairy Fantastic! screenings at SMOCA! Out in the Woods: Queer Folk and Fairy Tales Friday May 3 at 7pm Out in the Woods includes nine queer retellings of folk and fairy tales from around the world. These films include a story of love in a pre-hispanic Mexican … Read More
We were invited by the amazing Amanda Elizabeth Apgar to present a curated screening program, Fairy Film Festival: A collection of queer and experimental films for children and adults at Pomona College on February 8th, 2019. Many students from Amanda’s “Queering Childhood” class were in attendance as well as members of the Pomona College Gender … Read More
We were invited by Ingrid Schaffner, Curator and Liz Park, Associate Curator to curate a program for the Cinematheque, a program of the 57th Carnegie International. Our program, Tales of Transformation and Belonging is a collection of eight international short films, on which both kids and adults can fly away. Escape to gorgeous worlds of true … Read More
Hilary Harp traveled to Newcastle, United Kingdom to participate in the Imagine Queer: Exploring the Radical Potential of Queerness Now Conference at Newcastle University, October 12-13, 2018. She presented Fairy Fantastic!, including a screening of The Sausage, on the panel Disrupting Archetypes. Conference Program
On Saturday, Oct 20, 2018, Suzie Silver presents research conducted with Hilary Harp that expands our catalog of queer folk and fairy tale films and queer and anti-bullying films for youth as part of the Keyword International Symposium at Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh. “In this lively symposium, equal parts public forum and celebration, hear the … Read More
Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver present the inaugural Fairy Fantastic! screenings of Out in the Woods: Queer Folk and Fairy Tales and Over the Rainbow: Queer and Experimental Shorts for Kids of All Ages at Pittsburgh Filmmakers as part of their Luna Park Experimental Film and Media Series. Out in the Woods includes eleven queer … Read More
April 6, 2018, Harp & Silver presented an overview of Fairy Fantastic! as well as a preview of our curated film program, Over the Rainbow: Queer and Experimental Shorts for Kids of All Ages. This two day conference hosted by University of Pittsburgh explored “how to conceptualize, theorize, and approach research on children and childhood in … Read More
We are thrilled that The Sausage was selected for inclusion in the second edition of the QUEER KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (QUEERKIFF) to be held from December 8th – 10th 2017. The first queer film festival to be held in Uganda, QUEERKIFF celebrates the diversity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Intersex and Queer communities by providing spaces where Queer films … Read More