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2015 R GAY FILM FTIVAL STARTS R JANEIRO

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RIO GAY FILM FESTIVAL is an ternatnal feature and short film ftival of sexualy and genr: fictn, documentary and experimental, Brazilians and foreigners.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Featurg over one hundred films, the R Ftival Gay Cema (R Gay Film Ftival) returned to R Janeiro for s 2015 edn on Thursday, July 2nd and will ntue through July 12th wh bat, director prentatns and film screengs multiple theaters and lotns throughout the cy.

‘JUNGLE CISE’ STAR JACK WHEHALL IS ‘PROUD’ OF HIS GAY CHARACTER’S COMG-OUT SCENE DISNEY FILM

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Cocintally, this edn of the ftival follows last week's landmark Supreme Court lg the Uned Stat and the ftival's anizers hope to offer filmgoers R Janeiro new perspectiv on the issu still facg the homosexual and... Jack Whehall says he didn’t know that his character McGregor “Jungle Cise” was gay when he origally dned for the film.

While he don’t e the word “gay, ” he says he broke off three engagements wh women bee his “terts happily lay elsewhere. Jack Whehall opens up about playg a gay character #JungleCise, teasg a "signifint scene the movie" that was "thought about and talked about a lot" behd the scen. A terrific ncept is given unimagative treatment Rodrigo Felha’s “Favela Gay, ” a standard-issue documentary about very non-standard gays and lbians livg the slums of R.

FILM REVIEW: ‘FAVELA GAY’

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Only Gilmara Cunha, a unselor wh Gpo Conexao G, workg specifilly wh gay kids the favelas, really addrs the realy of beg queer the slums. The "gay subtext" that many. BUENOS AIRES – The R Janeiro Film Ftival has chosen Mexi to be the honored untry at s 16th edn, where the new Felix prize for gay-themed films will be troduced, Globo newspaper reported Thursday.

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