‘Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story’ to World Premiere at Boston LGBT Film Festival

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Documentary about Falcon Studios Founder Hits the Big Screen at Festivals

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story, a documentary film directed by Mike Stabile, chronicling the man who founded Falcon Studios, who almost singlehandedly took gay porn from the back alleys to the mainstream and who was one of the gay rights movement’s most unlikely pioneers, world premiered last Friday, April 10 at the Boston LGBT Film Festival.

You can watch the trailer for the documentary here.

From 1972 to 2000, Holmes, who was sometimes called the gay Hugh Hefner, fought the FBI, vice squads and an epidemic to document the emerging gay culture, and provide gay men across the country with a vision of life that was unashamed and celebratory.

Chuck Holmes

Seed Money discusses Holmes’ creation of a worldwide empire of flesh and fantasy and his unending contributions to gay pride and activism along the way. Chuck’s business brings him fortune beyond imagining and powerful friends, but when he attempts to channel his millions into a gay rights movement of the 90s, he finds that his money is sometimes more welcome than he is.

A number of influential voices from Falcon’s past and present as well as gay icons are featured in Seed Money answering questions about Chuck and retelling a number of turning points in the rise of Falcon and Holmes influence on gay culture. These commentators including Jeff Stryker, Steven Scarborough, Chi Chi Larue, John Rutherford, John Waters, Tom Chase, Jim Bentley, Steve Cruz, Phil St. John, Terry Legrand, Jake Shears, Carole Migden, Ken Horan, Jerry Goldstein, Sabin Grey, Vaughn Kincey, Jim Hodges, Scott Pearson and Mark Leno.

Through these interviews and rare footage, Seed Money helps tell the story of one of the gay community’s most complicated … and least known figures. The movie is on a double feature at the Boston LGBT Film Festival, billed with a short film, Midnight, that stars Sean Paul Lockhart (aka A-Team Exclusive Brent Corrigan).

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story has also been accepted to the Cinema St. Louis Q-Fest and is likely to appear at multiple other gay and lesbian festivals around the country in the coming months.

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