Billing itself as the world's only multicultural gender-inclusive film festival, Fusion Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival will take place this coming weekend, November 11 through 13. It will be the third consecutive year for the festival, which showcases documentary, narrative, and short films and videos. The festival will also feature workshops, panels, receptions, music and spoken-word programs?many of them free events.

The festival opens today (November 11), at Hollywood's historic Egyptian Theatre, with a program of short films about hard-hitting truths and passionate encounters, then an open-bar after-party. If the past is any indicator, the two full days of innovative works that follow may provide a showcase for a standout film slowly garnering its due notice.

Last November's festival closed with Rodney Evans Brother to Brothe r?a widely acclaimed favorite on the film festival circuit that won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival as well as awards at LGBT film festivals in New York, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Fusion 2005 will close with Bam Bam and Celeste, a feature film directed by Lorene Machado? that stars Margaret Cho, who also wrote the screenplay. Cho plays thirty-something Celeste, fag hag to Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels). Daniels appeared in Cho's 2004 concert video, Revolution.

Loosely based on Cho's teenage years in San Francisco in the '80s, the film follows the two friends?who run a hair salon?as they speed away from their Midwestern hometown in a hot pink getaway vehicle headed right for New York City. A contest for a TV makeover show lures them to the biggest of big cities, where they somehow manage to cross paths with the racist and homophobic dolts who haunted them in high school.

The film features an excellent supporting cast that includes longtime gay rights activist Kathy Najimy (Sister Act), John Cho (Harold in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Alan Cumming (a Scottish sometime writer/producer/director with more than 50 acting credits to his name), and Jane Lynch?Tina's slimy divorce lawyer on The L Word and the hilarious dog handler in Best in Show who gets her own paws on the bombshell owner of the standard poodle she trains.

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