FABULOUS, INDEED
A still from G.B.F., the Fabulous Independent Film Festival's Opening Night Film, which screens at
7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. Image courtesy of Magida Diouri
FILM FESTIVAL NOT ONLY CELEBRATES DIVERSITY, IT ALSO ENCOURAGES
ACCEPTANCE ON ALL LEVELS
By Cooper Levey-Baker
Associate Editor
Why did Magida Diouri launch the LGBT- in which Diouri "quit everything," the Society
themed Fabulous Independent Film Festival skipped the event one year. Diouri felt she had
two years ago? Simple: "It needed to be done." to bring it back.
Diouri previously worked at the Sarasota "I have this notion that we need to celebrate
Film Society, the pardiversity and it needs
ent nonprofit of Burns
to be seen and heard,"
Court and Lakewood
she says. "It seems
I have this notion that we need to
Ranch Cinemas, and
that there's a lot of
celebrate diversity and it needs to be seen
while she was there
talk about diversity,
and heard.
she programmed the
but still it's not fully
organization's annuaccepted, and that's
Magida Diouri
Founder
al Gay and Lesbian
on all levels. It can be
Fabulous Independent Film Festival
Film Celebration. Afon the sexual level,
ter a "mid-life crisis"
on the race level, on
