FilmOut San Diego at 2358 University Ave, Suite 1869, screens as San Diego County’s sole LGBTQ+ film festival, programming international features, documentaries, and shorts since 2000. The festival’s annual four-day August event fills theater seats at off-site venues while year-round monthly screenings activate community gathering spaces such as North Park Recreation Center. FilmOut holds IMDB accreditation, a distinction that allows qualifying films screened at the festival to add the credit to their database listings. The organization co-presents programming with San Diego’s Latino, Asian, Italian, Jewish, and German film festivals, and partners with performing-arts groups like Cirque Quirk for cross-disciplinary community events. The festival jury awards span categories including best narrative feature, best international short, best cinematography, and an Outstanding Emerging Talent prize recognizing debut filmmakers from underrepresented communities.