BFI London Lbian & Gay Film Ftival Announc Full 2014 Program and a New Name
Contents:
- 27TH BFI LONDON LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
- TOP 10 GAY FILMS ON THE BFI PLAYER
- THE MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL - NOW MIFO
- BFI LONDON LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL ANNOUNC FULL 2014 PROGRAM AND A NEW NAME
27TH BFI LONDON LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * bfi gay and lesbian film festival *
World premiere screengs the ftival will be prentg clu John Hay’s illumatg documentary Willem & Frieda, where Stephen Fry vtigat the spirg and movg story of a gay man and a lbian who led anti-Nazi ristance Holland. Timothy Harris’s timely documentary Kenyatta: Do Not Wa Your Turn follows 31-year-old Pennsylvania State Reprentative Mallm Kenyatta who tak along on his race to bee the first openly gay person of lour wh a seat the Uned Stat senate. Chroma 11 – Based on a te story of lost love, this immersive Virtual Realy experience rn a gay uple by means of digal media and the power of memori.
Le Be Mec (1979)BFI Flare celebrat the redisvery of Wallace Potts lost masterpiece of 1970s gay porn, Le Be Mec, featurg the merawork by legendary cematographer Néstor Almendros (Days of Heaven, The Blue Lagoon, Sophie’s Choice).
Followg his recent ath, BFI Flare will screen the late pneerg gay Brish filmmaker Ron Peck’s Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II his memory. Peck’s 1979 feature film Nighthawks told the story of a gay schoolteacher and his relentls search for a partner.
TOP 10 GAY FILMS ON THE BFI PLAYER
The Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival, crilly acclaimed event, is based the world-renowned historic South Beach neighborhood wh addnal films screened at lotns throughout Miami-Da County. * bfi gay and lesbian film festival *
Thirteen years later, Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II pris outtak om the first film as Ron gave an acunt of his life as a young gay man growg up 1960s and 70s Bra and tails the makg of Nighthawks, self a product of the gay liberatn movement. BFI Flare will also clu a wi range of events, talks and bat, which clu Rememberg Ron Peck, an timate library event which will provi the chance to learn more om iends of this sensive giant of gay pennt film and learn more about this important, unassumg yet driven tr and gay rights champn. Bisexual Visi-bi-ly Film & Televisn, a panel discsn on Bisexual reprentatn film and televisn, BFI Flare’s Big Gay Film Quiz, verg the full gamut of queer cema old and new, pl BFI Flare’s ever popular DJ Nights at the BFI Bar.
Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release the other world premiere screengs at the ftival are Jean Carlomto’s Esther Newton Ma Me Gay, exudg wisdom, passnate enquiry and a healthy dose of New York no-nonsense this celebratory portra of the pneerg octogenarian Amerin amic whose life work has formed the bedrock of LGBTQIA+ cultural anthropology. Director Matt Carter’s In om the Si explor the liv of a London gay gby team, both on and off the pch, revealg the many different gam that people play.
THE MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL - NOW MIFO
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Esther Newton Ma Me Gay (2022)This year’s BFI Flare programme monstrat jt how rich and diverse LGBTQIA+ stori film n be. Invisible: Gay Women Southern Mic is a joyo celebratn of the unsung hero behd some of untry mic’s biggt hs of the last four s, and Fanny: The Right to Rock is a celebratn of the 1970s rock band who were one of the first all-female bands to release an album the US, and were champned by David Bowie, who claimed they were as important as The Beatl. Dubbed Wt Ai’s first film about homosexualy, this is a chance to reasss Dakan’s signifince, a film which was fund by the Guean ernment and was the target of protts durg s productn.
Available ternatnally via the Brish Council’s YouTube channel, Five Films for Freedom has been nng sce 2015 and the programme has seen nearly 15 ln people viewg the films more than 200 untri and prcipali, cludg many parts of the world where homosexualy is crimalised, and some s, punishable by the ath penalty.
“Gay men still domate terms of on-screen reprentatn, and not only do we need more lbian and trans stori, but we sperately need films that explore bisexual, asexual and fluid inti, as well as thentic QTIBPOC (Queer Trans Intersex Black People & People of Colour) stori. Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri.
BFI LONDON LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL ANNOUNC FULL 2014 PROGRAM AND A NEW NAME
While gay films bee more and more visible at the multiplex, lbian films rema harr to see. * bfi gay and lesbian film festival *
Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle.