Beginning on Sept. 24, an international LGBTQ film festival will be coming to Winston-Salem."We’re inviting everyone in our community to come on out and enjoy our festival this year," Out at the Movies Board President Max Cullen said. "We’ve got three days of awesome programming for you. 16 feature films and 17 shorts."The festival will be held at the ACE Theatre Complex on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test will be required for entry to the theater, but there will also be virtual screenings of all the movies in this year's festival for those who feel more comfortable staying at home.Individual movie screenings can be purchased for $10 a show, or for $100 movie fans can get an all-access pass to the festival. And anyone who buys a ticket is eligible to attend after-parties once the day’s movie screenings have ended."One, in particular, is Randy Jones who was one of the original Village People. He is performing Saturday night at the Ramkat," Out at the Movies board member and UNCSA professor and chair of Screenwriting Ron Stacker Thompson said. The festival will feature international pictures, but it also will showcase a film entitled “Landlocked” worked on by UNCSA graduates."The director Tim Hall was one of my students and the star Dustin Gooch was one of my students," Ron Stacker Thompson said. "So it’s especially special for me.”After hosting their film festival virtually in 2020, the organizers of Out at the Movies say it’s vital to be back in person and in the Triad this year."Winston-Salem is a dynamic and layered community. It always has been and always will be," Cullen said. "But there hasn’t always been a ton of space for the LGBTQ community to come together and celebrate the work of other queer artists."And though the festival is curated for LGBTQ filmmakers and audiences, organizers say everyone will be able to find a film that inspires them."Although it’s Out at the Movies, we’re dealing with race, we’re dealing with gender and we’re dealing with age," Ron Stacker Thompson said. "We try to make sure everybody has something they are going to attach to — race, gender, family. There are all kinds of things that people of all sorts should be interested in. If they’re interested in life, that’s what we’re doing. That’s what we’re showing."You can see a preview of some of the films in a two-minute video by clicking here.You can find a full list of the films being shown, in addition to trailers for each of the films, or buy tickets to the festival by clicking here.