“Dope Queens,” an indie movie celebrating San Francisco’s famed Tenderloin neighborhood, will display screen for the primary time on the Bentonville Movie Pageant in Arkansas. 

The movie could have its world premiere on June 20 throughout the competition that runs June 16-22.

Again in November 2021, Alexandra Gray (“Empire,” “Gossamer Folds”), Pierson Fodé (“The Man From Toronto,” “The Mistaken Paris”) and Hint Lysette (“Hustlers,” “Monica”) had been introduced to star within the mission by writer-director Grafton Doyle. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” stars Kylie Sonique Love and Krystal Thomas joined the movie as supporting forged members.

Primarily based on true occasions, the romantic thriller will observe three pals, Goldie (Gray), Blake (Fodé), and Angel (Lysette), who should hustle by means of the night time on the streets of Tenderloin. The realm is landmarked as an necessary place within the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, having turn out to be the primary legally acknowledged transgender district on the planet.

The movie is produced by Julio Lopez Velazquez (“Buck Run,” “A Place within the Subject”) through Tomorrowland Productions, John Reyes Doyle (“On Our Means,” “A Place within the Subject”) and Grafton Doyle. Eugene Koh (“Feeling Via”) and Jillian Houghton are co-producing.

Along with the world premiere, the eleventh annual competition gives every week of movie screenings, industry-expert-led panels, Q&As and networking classes. Actress Geena Davis based the week-long occasion in collaboration with Walmart and Coca-Cola. Davis serves because the chair of the movie competition alongside her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a non-profit group devoted to advocating for equal illustration of girls in media.

Gray’s credit embody “MacGyver,” The Alienist” and “Learn how to Get Away With Homicide.” She is represented by Citizen Cranium and Zero Gravity Administration.

Fodé spent three years on the long-running cleaning soap “The Daring and the Lovely” and has appeared in “Supergirl” and “Tacoma FD.” He’s with Modern Artists, Zero Gravity Administration, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.

Lysette is represented by Modern Artists, Stride Administration and Peikoff Mahan Regulation Workplace. She has earned an Unbiased Spirit Nomination for finest lead efficiency for “Monica” together with the GLAAD Media Award for finest movie. Her different credit embody “Clear” and “Q-Power,” and he or she served as a producer and topic on the documentary “Disclosure.”