Outfest Los Angeles Includes Films With ‘Drag Race’ Winners BeBe Zahara Benet and Bianca Del Rio

“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” will open the LGBTQ festival, which runs Aug. 13 to Aug. 22

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Outfest Los Angeles features two films with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winners BeBe Zahara Benet and Bianca del Rio in its lineup for its 39th Film Festival.

Season 6 winner Bianca del Rio will join the main cast members of “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” Max Harwood and Lauren Patel, in the festival’s opening event. Del Rio plays art teacher Miss Haywood in the feature adaptation of the musical.

Season 1 winner BeBe Zahara Benet will perform live before the premiere of “Being Bebe,” which follows the Cameroonian-American immigrant’s struggle to embrace being an LGBTQ performer against discriminatory cultural forces.

Named after the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Outfest, the 10-day festival will celebrate LGBTQ+ stories and voices in film and television and will return to in-person screenings.

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