Durban Gay & Lbian Film Ftival 2016 - Event

Contents:

• DURBAN GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL
• DURBAN GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL
• DURBAN GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL 2016
• DURBAN GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL CIS WH DURBAN PRI
• GAY DURBAN FEST CALLS FOR FILMS

DURBAN GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

The 8th annual Durban Gay & Lbian Film Ftival menced on Friday, 21 September and will n until Sunday, 30 September 2018 at select pop-up venu around the cy. He simply and effectively shows how a gay boy found fame, excs, love, paful loss, ntractual battl alongsi his reer fg mic.

There are seven feature films this year cludg Breathe, a French g-of-age drama about two young women and their relatnship twists and Time is Up, a gay drama om Greek filmmaker Nilas Pourliaros that poignantly looks a through monochromatic palette at the ntemplatn of life’s value. Durban dienc will rell Canadian filmmaker and gay film star Charlie David and he ntu his support of DGLFF wh Shadowlands, a darker and ocsnally disturbg, if not exquisely shot, homage to the bygone queer eras of the 30s, 50s and 60s that explor love three separate stori – a uple renegotiatg a relatnship, a narcissist graspg to prehend , and star-crossed lovers mourng s loss.

There are a dozen other fascatg documentari that explore transgenr stori om Tonga to Chile to Pakistan, a gay Israeli man’s stggle for faial acceptance whilst HIV-posive and the acceptance he fds a gay men’s choir Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, hntg stori om Zimbabwean gay men Give a Man a Mask and drag queen, and kg, cultur om Cha to the Uned Stat. Thirty-four short films om 18 different untri across five ntents have been packaged to seven feature slots that clu lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer edi, dramas and even stop-animatn films.

DURBAN GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

Sce begng 1995 as “A Salute to Pri” and nng om 1996-2019 as the North Carola Gay + Lbian Film Ftival, this event has always featured a diverse array of shorts, documentari and feature films.

The KZNSA is proud to host the gural Durban Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, openg at the gallery on Friday 28th October.

Proceeds om the project will benef both the KZNSA and the KwaZulu-Natal Gay & Lbian Tourism Associatn (KZN-GALTA), rpectively. The Durban Gay & Lbian Film Ftival (DGLFF) has been nceived and anised by ftival director Jason Fiddler.

DURBAN GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL 2016

Proceeds om the project will benef both the KZNSA and the KwaZulu-Natal Gay & Lbian Tourism Associatn (KZNGALTA). The DGLFF will provi an pennt platform for filmmakers om South Ai and across the world to specifilly al wh issu relatg to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenred and Intersexed (LGBTI) muny. 2 Frogs the Wt, a French Canadian film will appeal to lbian viewers and gay guys alike, and the powerful Beyond Gay: The Polics of Pri will brg to the fore potent ias about the relevance of rabow pri our morn era.

Prejudice is experienced daily by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenred and Intersexed (LGBTI) dividuals.

DURBAN GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL CIS WH DURBAN PRI

A glamoro, lourful g-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank (Layke Anrson), a high school kid 1984 through an excg world of sex and mic, when his ep new passn for Jake (Benn Northover) is sudnly turned to a stggle for urage, facg a new disease - the "gay ncer" and be ep, te love the expectancy of ath and beyond...

Beyond Gay: The Polics of Pri (Feature Documentary, 2009, Canada, Bob Christie - Director).

GAY DURBAN FEST CALLS FOR FILMS

Gay Pri march and ftivals are happeng all over the world - sometim unr heavy opposn and vlence. Beyond Gay - The Polics of Pri is the most prehensive look at the role of the events ever unrtaken.

This feature length documentary follows the Vanuver Pri Society's (VPS) Para Director Ken Coolen and his lleagu as they travel to plac where Pri is still steeped prott to personally experience the rampant homophobia that still exists.

They also travel to Sao Plo Brazil for the world's largt gay para and New York Cy, the birthplace of the morn gay liberatn movement.