About the Festival
Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival is one of New Zealand's largest film festivals and one of very few queer cultural events that has a national profile among New Zealand's diverse queer communities.
The festival showcases films from New Zealand and around the world and plays to queer communities (encompassing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, takatāpui, and fa'afafine communities), our friends and our supporters in Auckland and Wellington. Local support and funding permitting, we also try to bring the festival to Christchurch.
Reel Queer Incorporated is a non-profit group run by a core committee of very experienced, but unpaid volunteers, who are drawn from Wellington and Auckland's gay, lesbian and transgender communities.
We have organised seventeen Out Takes film festivals and numerous special screenings since starting in Wellington in 1995. In 1997 Christchurch was the first city we expanded to outside of Wellington.
Reel Queer Incorporated is a registered charity in New Zealand (CC41933).
Festival Objectives
Queer films have the power to remind us of who we are, to inform and transform people both in and outside of our communities, to bring people together to celebrate queer culture and to advance the movement for equal rights. Reel Queer Incorporated's objectives are to:
- Raise positive public awareness of queer culture and of the valuable contribution made by the queer community to New Zealand society.
- Engage the diverse members of the queer community and bring them together in a celebration of queer cinema and culture.
In the current economic climate, we also recognise that for Out Takes 2011 we need to exercise careful financial management and continue to offer good value to the advertisers and sponsors who support us, including offering new opportunities for advertisers and sponsors to gain exposure through the festival.
