12/03/06 “I’m Still Here Becoming Legendary” Premiere’s at FUSION, the Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival 2006. Wins Audience Award for Best Documentary Short.
REACH LA premiered a new documentary that focuses on creativity and self-preservation in on the Los Angeles House and Ball Community. It features interviews with LA House parents and youth involved with the Ball scene that also work as HIV prevention educators. At the FUSION opening Friday night festivities REACH LA organized a mini-ball that was a huge success and got audiences excited about the documentary screening. On Sunday December 3rd REACH LA premiered I’m Still Here: Becoming Legendary to a standing room only audience at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood and received lots of positive feedback. To top off the day “I’m Still Here won the FUSION Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Festival! That same day, REACH LA also offered HIV prevention awareness games, condom races, tongue billiards, and fake tattoos in the Egyptian Theater courtyard for film audiences, and arranged for free HIV testing on-site at the festival.
Eight new videos by REACH LA youth video makers were selected to screen as part of the FUSION Festival shorts program “Youth Movement: Los Angeles” at Egyptian Theater. The youth filmmakers attended and spoke after the screening as part of the Q&A session.