The Queer Film Festival List
Organized by date or organized by country, a list of queer film festivals from around the world. www.queerfilmfestivals.org-
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Awards Catchup
Apologies to the festivals involved, we’re hopefully better late than never. While we’re waiting to see what our colleagues in Cannes might get around to shortlisting for the Queer Palm, here’s what’s been winning prizes around Europe. CALL ME KUCHU … Continue reading
What’s in a name?
The legacy name. The one with ‘lesbian and gay’. Not ‘queer’, not ‘LGBT’. The old-fashioned name. The stuck-in-the-past name. Non-inclusive. And so on. When you’re a 27-year-old festival your name means a lot. It was provocative in the early days … Continue reading
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2013 Teddy Award Winners
The 27th Teddy Awards were given out last night at Station in Berlin, at a glam evening featuring Rufus Wainwright. Best Feature was awarded to Polish film W IMIE… (IN THE NAME OF…). Sebastien Lifshitz won Best Documentary with his … Continue reading
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I Am Divine to open LLGFF
The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival opens on March 14 this year with a European premiere: I AM DIVINE from Jeffrey Schwarz (VITO). The film will have its world premiere only days beforehand at SXSW, so I’d think the … Continue reading
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Teddy Award 2013
Well, it’s Teddy Time again. The most prestigious, the oldest, the … insert adjective here … queer film award in the world. Growing organically from a get-together where the queer programmers and filmmakers who were at the festival met up … Continue reading
What’s the big deal about awards?
With the Berlinale kicking off, which for many of us in the European Queer Film Festival scene is the unofficial start of our programming year, I know I’ll soon be back at my keyboard writing posts entitled “Winners at [Festival … Continue reading
A most amazing map
A monumental effort, and almost a Doctoral Thesis on its own: Queer Film Festival scholar Skadi Loist has crafted the Google map to end all Google maps, documenting the comings and goings of Queer Film Festivals of all sizes and … Continue reading
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What’s going on around here?
And … we’re back. It’s 2013. Where did that year go? No matter, and more to the point, what have we been up to? Well, though things have been quiet on this website, the Alliance’s mailing list has had a … Continue reading
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What’s new in Guadalajara?
Maguey, that’s what. An award at a straight festival to support and promote a different kind of film to the one their audiences are maybe used to. A queer one, in other words. Frameline, The Teddy Award, Lesgaicinemad and The … Continue reading
Sponsorship can be a rocky road
I noticed two new tweets in the last little while that made me start thinking about festival sponsorship and its ramifications. Firstly, the tweets, both from @TaliShapiro: Communiqué from #Cineffable [bottom left] http://bit.ly/nVIzUu #French festival accepts #Israeli grant, but takes … Continue reading