Out In Africa Fundraiser

The Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival will host fundraising première screenings of Gaudi Afternoon in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Cape Town: Cinema Nouveau, V&A Waterfront. 8pm, Thursday 12th July 2001.

Johannesburg: Cinema Nouveau, Rosebank Mall. 8pm, Thursday 12th July 2001. The scriptwriter of Gaudi Afternoon, James Mayhre, will introduce the film in Johannesburg and answer questions after the screening.

Come on out and support the Festival! You may reserve your tickets by return e-mail to raisin@oia.co.za. You will need to indicate which city you are booking for, so put either “Gaudi Jhb” or “Gaudi CT” in the subject field. Your reservation will be confirmed only once we have received your payment. Please send a cheque made out to the OIA FUND and post it to:

If you do not have a cheque book you may pay directly into the OIA FUND account:

and fax your deposit slip to 021 465 1927.

As soon as we receive your payment your booking will be confirmed by e-mail. Your tickets will be waiting for you at the box office on the night.

Gaudi Afternoon

Spain 2000

93 mins

Director: Susan Seidelman
Stars: Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Lili Taylor.

Susan Seidelman, of Desperately Seeking Susan fame, directs this warm and witty gender-bending detective story about alternative families, set in Barcelona against the backdrop of the Gaudi’s fantastic architecture. Cassandra (Judy Davis), an American translator living in Barcelona, is hired by femme fatale Frankie to track down her missing “husband” Ben. Her assignment is a tangled web of mistaken (sexual) identities, double-crossings and a kidnap plot ... Gaudi Afternoon stars two-time Oscar-nominated actress Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives, Passage to India) and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Space Cowboys, Pollock).

Directed by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan, Sex and the City), the film was produced by the Oscar-winning producer Andrés Vicente Gómez (Belle Epoque). The cast also includes Oscar-nominated actress Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear) and indie movie queen Lili Taylor (Ransom, High Fidelity).

The screenplay was based on the popular lesbian detective novel by Barbara Wilson, which won both the Lambda Book Award and the British Crimewriter’s Association Prize for the Best Novel Set in Europe.

The scriptwriter, James Mayhre, will introduce the film in Johannesburg. Previous to writing the screenplay for Gaudi Afternoon, Mayhre was a development executive and personal manager at the Warner Bros-based production company, Somers-Teitelbaum-David, where he developed such projects as The Rookie starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen and In the Nick of Time for Disney. As a personal manager he’s worked with such clients as Treat Williams, Hector Elizondo, Jennifer Beals, Martha Plimpton, Amy Madigan and Sally Kirkland.

Mayhre lives in the Johannesburg suburb of Parktown North with his boyfriend, Dr Dennis Sifris, and is currently seeking permanent residency under South Africa’s same-sex partners’ rights legislation.

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