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Hou Hsiao-hsien is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Angela Robinson is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Outfest Fusion LGBTQ People of Color Film Festival awarded Robinson with the Fusion Achievement Award in 2013 for her contribution to LGBTQ+ media visibility.
Gina Pareño is a Filipina actress.
The Iris Prize, established in 2007 by Berwyn Rowlands of The Festivals Company, is an international LGBT film prize and festival which is open to any film which is by, for, about or of interest to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex audiences and which must have been completed within two years of the prize deadline.
The Queer Lion is the trophy awarded yearly since 2007 to the “Best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture” among those presented during the Venice International Film Festival.
Julie Casper Roth, is an American artist, documentary filmmaker, experimental video artist, and writer based in Connecticut.
Antony Hickling is an English Independent film maker, actor and writer. He became a French citizen in 2018.
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to LGBT film. The inaugural festival took place in April 1981, and is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in the world.
Jallikattu is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language independent action thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery with a screenplay by S. Hareesh and R. Jayakumar, based on the short story Maoist by Hareesh. The film stars Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad and Santhy Balachandran. The plot follows a bull that escapes from a slaughterhouse in a hilly remote village and the entire village men gathering to hunt down the animal.
Acts of Love is a 2021 documentary-fiction hybrid film by Isidore Bethel and Francis Leplay that premiered in Hot Docs's Nightvision section, which focuses on future "cult classics." When his relationship with an older man in Mexico starts to wane, Bethel, who performs as himself in the film, travels to Chicago. He chats with hundreds of men on dating apps and invites them to make a film with him. A dozen meet him for an interview, and four agree to write and perform in a fictional film that their original conversations inspired.
Ahead of the Curve is a 2020 American biographical documentary film co-produced and co-directed by Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow, with music composed by Meshell Ndegeocello. The film is based on the true story of Franco Stevens, one of the most influential women in lesbian history, and the founding publisher of Curve Magazine, a leading international lesbian lifestyle magazine. Portraying themselves in the film are, Franco Stevens, Kim Katrin, Denice Frohman, Amber Hikes, Andrea Pino-Silva, Melissa Etheridge and Jewelle Gomez. The documentary premiered in June 2020 at the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Little Gay Boy is a French film directed by Antony Hickling in 2013. It has been screened at LGBTQ film festivals around the world and had a cinema release in Paris, France 2013.
Where Horses Go to Die is a French film directed by Antony Hickling in 2016. The film had a cinema release at St André des Arts cinema in Paris, France 2016.
Frig is a French film directed by Antony Hickling in 2018. The film was premiered at the Etrange Festival in Paris at the Forum des images. Frig had a cinema release at St André des Arts cinema in Paris, France 2018.
Sab Rab De Bande is an Indian documentary featuring stories of Sikh queer individuals in India.The 28-minute documentary film by Sukhdeep Singh explores the perception of homosexuality in the Sikh religion.The film was premiered at Orinam's Reel Desire Queer Film Festival.The film was also a part of the South Asian Heritage Month in 2021.The documentary is narrated by Anwesh Sahoo.
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life is a 2018 Israeli documentary film about the life of Israeli gay porn star Jonathan Agassi. The film is a Heymann Brothers Films release, written, directed and produced by Tomer Heymann.
