Alonso Duralde is Film Reviews Editor for TheWrap and Senior Programmer at Outfest. He has previously written about film for Movieline, Salon and MSNBC.com, among many other outlets. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and and the TV/movie review program What the Flick?! (The Young Turks Network). Duralde is a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival, as well as a consultant for the USA Film Festival/Dallas, where he spent five years as artistic director. A former arts and entertainment editor at The Advocate, he was a regular contributor to "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" on Current. He is the author of two books — "Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas" (Limelight Editions) and "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" (Advocate Books) — and is an adjunct faculty member at Chapman University.

Catch Character Sketch: Create LGBT Characters with Alonso Duralde on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 9:00 am.