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Chicago – June is Pride Month, a celebration of Lgbtq liberation, and all other forms of orientation and gender liberation. What began as a gay and trans rights flashpoint on a June night in 1969, during the push back riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, has become a month-long commemoration of the evolution in identity rights and freedoms. An event in Chicago associated with Pride Month is the annual “Queer Bits Film Festival” – a short film program at the Pride Arts Center on North Broadway on June 17th, 2017 at 7:30pm – that showcases the best of Queer cinema from around the world. The festival producers are Shaun Baer and Dan Pal.

The Queer Bits Film Festival

Photo credit: PrideFilmsAndPlays.com

The program line-up, which includes comedy, drama, documentary and student short films, is as follows…

5A-5B, directed by Michael Cicetti

Coming Full Circle, directed by Kim Yaged

Dawn,...

If you’re looking for something a little different on your TV, foreign shows are readily available on our streaming services. But don’t be put off by the subtitles — otherwise, you could be missing out on some excellent programming.

Netflix has more than its share of worthwhile TV shows with subtitles — whether they’re American shows that are set around the world or foreign shows that have come to our digital shores. You can even change the settings for the ones that have English-dubbed tracks to revert them back to their beautiful native tongue.

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While choosing to watch TV with subtitles allows for the optimal experience — immersing you in another culture through its language while you appreciate the actor’s actual performance — there’s one other benefit as well. Reading subtitles requires that you put...

Hong Kong-based Young Live Entertainment (Yle) has sold action title SPL2: A Time For Consequences to Japan’s Twin Co.

Directed by Soi Cheang, the film grossed around $90m in mainland China last summer and has sold widely to other territories. Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, Simon Yam and Louis Koo head the cast.

Yle has also sold three titles to Korea’s Poongkyung Sori Inc: Lin Yiqi’s 798090, Leung Kar Yan’s The Scroll Of Wing Chun White Crane and Shu Miao’s Taste Of Love.

Fantasy epic Taste Of Love and drama 798090, about a woman’s quest for independence during China’s economic reform period, both feature Korean stars – Yoo Seung-jun (Dragon Blade) and Song Ji-hyo (Running Man) respectively.

Meanwhile, ITN Distribution has acquired North American rights to two Chinese horror titles sold by Yle: Wong Pak Kei’s Are You Here, produced by Patrick Kong, and Chan Pang-chun...

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