Mezipatra

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Mezipatra is a Czech queer film festival screening films with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes. The name Mezipatra translates as "mezzanine" and refers to the festival's mission: creating space for meeting of people regardless of their gender or sexual identities. Each edition explores a chosen theme and hosts a variety of international guests. The accompanying events range from lectures and debates to art openings, theatre performances as well as exciting parties. It takes place annually in November in Prague and Brno with related events in Ostrava, Olomouc and other cities in Czech Republic. [1] Throughout the year Mezipatra offers additional screenings within the Mezipatra Approved edition. Mezipatra also participates in Prague Pride festival by organizing screenings and debates with LGBT themes.

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History

The festival was founded in Brno in 2000 as an accompanying program of the Gay Men CZ competition. The following year was already organized as a separate event – a film show called Duha nad Brnem (Rainbow over Brno). In 2002 the festival started using the name Mezipatra with the subtitle czech gay and lesbian film festival. In the same year, the festival expanded to Prague and in subsequent years to other cities of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 2009, the festival has used the new subtitle queer film festival. Mezipatra was founded by a civic association called STUD Brno. Since 2013 it is organized by a registered association Mezipatra, STUD is a co-organizer under the license agreement.

Winners

As of the 4th edition, Mezipatra introduced jury awards. The winners have been:

Main Jury Award for Best Feature Film

Student Jury Award for Best Short Film

Audience Award for Best Feature Film

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References

  1. ↑ info@blue-compass.com. "Mezipatra Queer Film Festival". www.festivalfocus.org. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  2. ↑ "Winning films of the 20. Mezipatra: Adam, Crash and Burn, Honey, And Then We Danced". Mezipatra Queer Film Festival. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  3. ↑ "We know this year's winners!". Mezipatra Queer Film Festival. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  4. ↑ Keep the Lights On wins Mezipatra Archived 2013-02-17 at archive.today , attended 2013-01-05.
  5. ↑ "We know this year's winners!". Mezipatra Queer Film Festival. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  6. ↑ Mezipatra přivítala 10 200 diváků, nejvíc nadchlo Místy oblačno Archived 2013-02-17 at archive.today , attended 2013-01-05.

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