Outfest and UCLA
team to preserve queer film classics

The University of California, Los Angeles, Film and Television Archive has joined forces with Outfest--the Los Angeles gay and lesbian film festival--to create the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. The initiative is designed to create the largest publicly accessible collection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender films in the world. Outfest will be responsible for identifying and prioritizing preservation and restoration activities as well as for raising the funds necessary for that work. The archive will oversee and perform the preservation and restoration work as well as store the collection at its own expense in perpetuity. (Reuters)