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Salt Lake City-born filmmaker brings her ’Alaska Is a Drag’ to Utah’s LGBTQ film festival

Shaz Bennett is coming home to Salt Lake City this week, bringing the movie she’s worked on for six years.

Her coming-of-age story “Alaska Is a Drag” has played the film-festival circuit over the past several months and will continue that run when it debuts at Salt Lake City’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday, July 20-22, at the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts.

“Alaska Is a Drag” is one of the 23 features that will play over Damn These Heels’ three days. (It screens Sunday, July 22, at 1:45 p.