Further consultation and an announcement of results will take place during the summer. The question provoked a lively debate throughout the festival on social media and in person. The festival trailer specially commissioned from Aleem Khan and Fariyal asked audiences “What’s in a name?” to encourage debate about whether the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival needs to change its name to reflect its wider, gender-inclusive ambitions.
The Derek Oyston CHE Film prize (£1,000) for the film which best reflects the Campaign for Homosexual Equality’s values was awarded to Selena Blake’s Taboo… Yardies, a powerful film about LGBT human rights in Jamaica and second prize (£500) went to Intersexion, a pioneering documentary about the 1 in 2000 people born with ambiguous genitalia.
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Pennebaker’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a live accompaniment to Salome (1923) by Verity Susman, Gender Failure -a multi-media film, spoken word and music show from Rae Spoon, Ivan Coyote and Clyde Peterson, a performance by the Pink Singers, and a series of lively club nights in the bar. īFI Southbank rocked throughout the Festival with performance art from Brian Lobel, a Bowie night with lecture by Rupert Smith and screening of D.A. Evan Davis hosted a reunion of the team from Framed Youth (1983) with a youth film-making workshop, and a series of discussion events on Pasolini and Chantal Akerman and Global Queer Space. Leather Bar attended by actor Christian Patrick and the first screening in a generation of the newly rediscovered earliest British gay themed television drama, South (1959). Other highlights included the UK premiere of Travis Matthews’ and James Franco’s Interior. Directors Mark Ravenhill & Jeremy Jeffs and their subject attended the world premiere of Bette Bourne: It Goes With the Shoes, a new documentary about a living legend of British gay cultural life. Visiting directors included Negar Azarbayjani (Facing Mirrors), Myriam Fougere (Lesbiana), Kevin Hegge (She Said Boom), Michael Mayer (Out in the Dark), Oscar-nominated David France (How to Survive a Plague) and many more. Over 300 international delegates (press, film-makers and industry) attended the festival. The atmosphere was electric and this success underlines the importance of the festival in forging a future in which diversity is celebrated and LGBT stories make it to the screen.” The Accenture Gala was Out in the Dark, a dramatic narrative of love across the political boundaries of contemporary Israel, due for release in April by Network Releasing.Ĭlare Stewart, Head of Exhibition and Festival Director said, “This is a tremendous result and we are delighted to have brought so many great films and events to audiences who have responded fantastically to the programme. The festival opened with the International Premiere of Jeffrey Schwarz’s excellent documentary I Am Divine about the larger than life John Waters’ superstar, drag queen, actor, singer, performer who was born Glen Harris Milstead and became Divine. Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, with both directors present for two sold out screenings where it was announced that Peccadillo Pictures have bought the film for UK release.
The 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival closed on Sunday 24th March 2013 with a gala screening at BFI Southbank of Margarita dir.