Win Tickets ($70): Queer Screams Film Festival @ Clinton Street Theater | Special Guest Don Mancini Creator of CHUCKY
We are giving away a pair of Saturday passes to Queer Screams Film Festival @ Clinton Street Theater on August 2. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed July 28.
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From our sponsors:
Queer Screams Film Festival
August 1-3, 2025
$15-100 | 18+
Full Schedule + Tickets: cstpdx.com
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR 97202
Queer Screams is a film festival dedicated to the celebration of LGBTQ+ genre cinema from emerging and established queer artists within the community – locally, nationally and internationally.
Queer Screams is excited to announce that this year’s very special VIP guest is Don Mancini. Don Mancini is a screenwriter, director and producer. Best known for creating the CHUCKY franchise, Don is the recipient of the 2025 Queer Screams Career Achievement Award: Honoring Significant Contribution to Queer Horror Cinema & Culture.
“I’m thrilled and honored to be receiving the Career Achievement Award from Queer Screams this coming August. With the Chucky franchise, I’ve dedicated much of my career to creating the kind of queer representation in the horror genre which this awesome festival celebrates. Please join us for a scary summer weekend of guts, gays, and gore, featuring screenings of the original CHILD’S PLAY, BRIDE OF CHUCKY, and SEED OF CHUCKY!” – Don Mancini
Queer horror holds significant cultural weight. It allows us to examine themes of otherness, identity, and societal anxieties in a unique and often cathartic way. Through monsters, ghosts, and the uncanny, these films provide space for marginalized voices to reclaim narratives and challenge dominant perspectives.
“Queer Screams is such an inspiring and empowering festival.” – Sara Werner (director/filmmaker)
The festival venue is The Clinton Street Theater, a landmark of Portland cinema history. One of the oldest operating movie houses in the United States, The Clinton Street Theater has always been about community.
This year’s festival will include: 26 NEW Horror Films, Live Burlesque performances, Live Drag performances, a musical performance by Body Academics, DJ Maxx Bass spinning vinyl and an After Party at Dots Café.
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oh my gosh this sounds so absolutely amazing! would love to take my girlfriend to this!
The Child’s Play films are a central staple in my life, and have helped inspire my love of dolls & mannequins — which I collect (and which my husband keeps @ bay in my writing room, or at least tries to. The only bay I want to keep is Antonia Bay from The Fog.) Don Mancini took a screenwriting course from Cynthia Whitcomb here in the Portland area — was this indeed the seed of Chucky(‘s origin story)? Cynthia and her sister Laura are amazing humans, writers, and teachers; I’ve been blessed to learn from their expertise.