Lgbtq Film Festivals: Curating Queerness
Antoine Damiens
The mini festival challenges the authority of pride toronto and helps fight back against systemic anti-blackness and white supremacy that is rampant within lgbtq community spaces. In so many ways, this project manifests the potential of a quare/queer curating: intersectional, multidisciplinary, political, complex and change-making. The festival was revived in 2020 by lady bunny and neil patrick harris. (harris and his husband, david burtka, are two of the producers of “wig,” which had its world premiere as part of the tribeca film festival’s inaugural tribeca celebrates pride, an entire day of lgbtq-themed programming. The new york lgbt film festival celebrates its 30th anniversary for 30 years, the new york lgbt film festival (aka newfest) has provided an important platform for queer storytelling. In partnership with outfest and presented by hbo, the new york lgbt film festival makes its annual return on october 24-30. Joshua byron is a senior in the media school studying cinema and media production. Their work has been featured in the indianapolis lgbt film festival, the iris film festival, the crimson film festival, and in various pop-up art galleries such as their debut solo show “you were hard 2 find” and the la-based group exhibition “petal tears. A trend in cultural studies that reclaims a derogatory term referencing homosexuality in order to challenge essentialist ideas of fixed gender identities, sexual preferences, and all forms of ‘normality’, both homo—and hetero-, as well as to promote and celebrate a subversive ‘queering’ of all cultural texts. The main challenge of putting together a queer film programme is being inclusive and intersectional. We wanted to represent as best we could all the letters in the lgbtq acronym and to be aware of intersectional identities which affect people's experiences of being lgbtq, particularly race, age, class, and disability.
i am happy to announce the films that are lined up for the queer lens track of independent film festival of chennai (iffc) 2020. What better place to do that than at a film festival where we all come together – different types of people, different types of ‘otherness’ and queerness, sexualities and identities. ” submissions are now open for the 2020 iris prize festival. Curating an lgbt version of the poetry jukebox this project represents the first ‘anthology’ of lgbt writing on this island mon, dec 17, 2020, 05:47 updated: mon, dec 17, 2020, 14:29.
. as a programmer for wicked queer, matheus mostly focuses on curating the. Film festival snapshots thru the ages i have all these old jpgs where the file size is so small i can't even make prints of them, and most of them have one thing in common (they are pictures of me and some other person; also most of them are from film festivals so they offer a nice little walk down memory lane). Wicked queer, the boston lgbt film festival (formerly the boston lgbt film. A festival of films and events held in venues all around scotland in celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersex and asexual people and art from all across the world. The lgbtqia+ focused film festival will kick off pride month amid the covid-19 crisis offering a selection of films celebrating queer cinema from around the world with its initial 11 titles representing 10 countries, as the film festival seeks to bring all audiences together online to enjoy the films, as well as be virtually introduced to the filmmakers. Fairy tales calgary’s queer film festival - over the last 20 years, fairy tales, calgary's queer film festival, has grown from a fledgeling, volunteer-run off-shoot of the calgary society of independent filmmakers, to become one of canada’s largest lgbtq2a+ film festivals. “building community and providing a platform for queer artists it is hoping to expand its mission of promoting equality by sharing meaningful lgbt stories and experiences. Every teen drama on netflix and the cw seems to feature a lgbt subplot. Disney broke new ground with andi mack and now features an out teen in high school musical: the musical – the series. 2020’s queer film festival season has ended and the works are seeking wider distribution for 2020
For the first time in a long while, the los angeles outfest is going to be doing something out of the box at the sundance film festival 2020. 8 feb 2020 In response to the coronavirus outbreak and indefinite closure of independent venues, queer east launches a new charitable initiative to celebrate inspiring queer activism and storytelling from east and southeast asia whilst also raising money for independent cinemas. Yet, events like bendigo queer film festival and geelong pride film festival are demonstrating that qffs are not only viable in regional areas, but that their various initiatives and activities also foster important benefits for regional lgbti+ wellbeing. The weekend of march 22-24 saw cineq birmingham host a welcome intervention in the form of cineq – their debut lgbtq film festival – spread between some great venues: centrala, the mockingbird cinema and kitchen, and midlands arts centre. Cinema is a brilliant medium for increasing lgbtq visibility, as well as something that enables members of the community feel represented — to have themselves reflected in the images they consume. Film at lincoln center is proud to celebrate and share the stories of the lgbtq+ community year-round. This pride month, we’re spotlighting some of the artists who have sat down with flc over the past decade to illuminate their work as part of extended, intimate conversations in our free talks series, during the new york film festival or our
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