OUT TAKES Dallas, the local lesbian and gay film festival, is gearing up for its monthly screening on April 8 at The Magnolia Theater. If you haven’t attended an OUT TAKES Dallas screening, you’re missing out on an evening of fun!

Now in its 11th season, OUT TAKES Dallas brings you the freshest, most thought provoking and scandalous LGBT film available today. The second Thursday of every month is known as “gay movie night” where the community trots on over to West Village to attend the screening. Before patrons head on over to the theater, they stop by the pre-screening mixer in which they can chat with special guests and OUT TAKES Dallas board members.

“We Have to Stop Now” is the feature film for the month of April. The flick follows two lesbian therapists who struggle to keep up the pretense of staying together when a documentary film crew invades their home after the success of their book “How to Succeed in a Marriage without Even Trying”.

For those who frequent OUT TAKES Dallas screenings, you may recall the film from a couple of months ago as a short film. According to Phillip Archer, managing director of OUT TAKES Dallas, the audience reported rave reviews of the film. As a result, the organization is now featuring the full length film in April.

The short film, “Fat Free Milk”, which is scheduled to screen immediately prior to the feature, was created using a novel face-on-animation technique. This short film uses stop-motion and features a youth group coach, Yoav, his new partner, Gil, and a package delivered by a very mischievous stork.

“Both of our films scheduled for screening in April have stood out in one way or another, which is why we’re excited to be screening them for our community,” said Archer.

“Wanna watch” the OUT TAKES Dallas screening on April 8 for free? Enter today for your chance to win one of 10 pairs of passes. Simply visit http://bit.ly/otd410 and answer a few questions. Entries are being accepted now through April 6.

Both films will be screening at The Magnolia Theater at West Village in Dallas on April 8, 2010 beginning at 7:30 p.m. There is a pre-screening mixer that begins at 6 p.m. around the corner from the theater at Assembly. For more information regarding the films and to purchase tickets online, please visit www.outtakesdallas.org.

There’s lots of buzz about the Oscars® this year; 10 best picture nominations, a movie about giant Smurfs trying to figure out whether they were reenacting Dances with Wolves or FernGully, husband and ex-wife rivalries, Barbara Wa-wa doing her last Oscar Night Special… Better than daytime television, isn’t it?!

Get your share of celebrities and papa-paparazzi by scootin’ your cute little behind on over to The Rose Room at Station 4 this Sunday for “On the Carpet”, a fabulous Oscar watch party that benefits Resource Center Dallas.

The red carpet is rolled out at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 7 for a watch party that you’ll sure remember! “On the Carpet” will be emceed by Paul J. Williams with special celebrity guests like Roni Porter from CW 33, Jason Sheeler of The Dallas Morning News, Derrick Brown from Kidd’s Kids and Beaux Wellborn from MTV’s Made! Plus, who knows who else you may bump into?

OUT TAKES Dallas, the lesbian and gay film festival will also be on hand providing you with an opportunity to win some cash in the 50/50 raffle.

To give you an idea on the popularity of this event, VIP tickets are already sold out! Not to fret, little one. You can still grab general admission tickets for only $10 online by visiting the Resource Center Dallas’ Web site at www.rcdallas.org.

See you there!