Services
Queer Lounging
verb
(kwîr lounj
ng)
1) to connect through common cause; 2) to move coolly and relax into a homey environment
How to... Lounge
Queer Lounge Toronto happening during the Toronto International Film Festival® from September 9-11, 2006 will be located in fashionable Yorkville—the heart of industry activities—and will provide the following signature programs (see below for Queer Lounge full service):
- Industry Brunch
- An exclusive industry brunch celebrating queer-interest Festival films.
- Invitees will include Canadian and international filmmakers, talent, press and executives in entertainment.
- Concert & After-Party
- Exclusive concert event featuring top-name musical talent.
- Event will include Red Carpet arrivals and Press Line
- Exclusive VIP Room furnished in a hip lounge atmosphere
- Post-concert VIP cocktail party
- Hundreds of invitees will include entertainment industry, celebrity, press and sponsor-guests
- Panels
- Informative panel discussions with queer and queer-friendly filmmakers and other film professionals.
- Guests will include filmmakers, talent and crew of queer-interest Festival films. Topics will range from discussions about specific Festival films to issues important to the LGBT community and filmmaking.
- The Official Queer Lounge Film Guide
- A must-have guide with at-a-glance listings of Festival films of queer-interest distributed to the public
- Includes sponsors and Queer Lounge programs and panels
- Queer Lounge media partners and local outlets in Toronto will be distribution points for thousands of Queer Lounge Film Guides
One fantastic development at this year's festivities was the introduction of the Queer Lounge... let's face it; this was the most consistently worthwhile place to make a (nearly) daily appearance.—Green Cine Daily
Queer Lounge Full-Service
Queer Lounge expanded services in Park City include:
- A comfortable setting
- A multiple-day, hip lounge atmosphere
- Staff familiar with the festival and the host town.
- The Official Queer Lounge Film Guide
- An at-a-glance listing of the films and events of queer-interest
- Includes our programs, panels and our sponsors
- Lounge services
- A bank of computers plus a wireless network allow guests to stay connected
- Viewing stationsallow film professionals to share clips of their movies
- Community board for patrons to exchange film information and distribute extra tickets
- Panels
- Informative panel discussions with queer filmmakers and other film professionals
- Press and Marketing services
- Central location for press conferences
- Press locale for celebrity and filmmaker interviews
- Computer bank and wireless network for press to file timely articles.
- Key location for the dissemination of flyers, posters and displays for festival films
- Mixers and VIP Parties
- Cocktail mixers (open to festival attendees 21 years of age and older).
- Sponsored VIP events (Guest Lists, Red Carpet, VIP Room, Catering, Press Line set-up available)
- Top-name musical and comedy acts