Melbourne Queer Film Festival #Melbourne

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**Thursday March 18 to Sunday March 28**
Astor Theatre, ACMI Cinemas, Greater Union Cinemas Russell St & Loop
Melbourne, Australia

[www.mqff.com.au](http://www.mqff.com.au/)
        
The 20th Melbourne Queer Film Festival features the best in queer cinema from Australia and around the world. Highlights include features, documentaries and shorts programs, along with panel discussions dealing with issues relevant to the queer community. As Melbourne’s second largest film festival this year’s program is overflowing with outstanding films from around the world.

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John Waters #Melbourne show

Brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo , John Waters will perform his glorious one man show,’ This Filthy World’ in Melbourne.  America’s royal raconteur and director of cult film classics such as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Polyester, Waters is famous and infamous as the “Pope of Trash”.  Focusing on Waters’ fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.

‘This Filthy World’ is an essential experience for anyone interested in how not  to make a movie, how to become famous (read infamous) and how to shock and make people laugh.

John Waters “This Filthy World”
Saturday 27 February @ 8.30pm
the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
bookings  1300 182 183  or www.theartscentre.com.au

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Get your kit off with Spencer Tunick – Opera House – March 1st, 2010. #naked #fb

Internationally renowned artist Spencer Tunick has revealed that he will create an
installation using thousands of nude Australians on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera
House on the morning of Monday 1 March.

The artist is calling on all Australians interested in taking part to register immediately
at The Base to reserve a place.

Tunick’s installation, called ‘The Base’, will be one of the highlights of this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Participation in the art installation however is
open to all Australians, regardless of sexuality. All nude volunteers will be rewarded with
an official Spencer Tunick photograph of ‘The Base.

The US-based artist is the man responsible for gathering people by the thousand and getting them to strip, en masse, in the name of art. Using a sea of naked bodies as his medium, he moulds his groups of willing volunteers into abstract shapes, in various forms and locations, before capturing it on film. He’s attracted huge crowds the world round,
including 7,000 in Barcelona, and 18,000 in Mexico City.

Less is more - Spencer Tunick

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Rabid Tripped-Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas, Australian shorts at the Bangalore Queer Film Festival

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The Best Of The London Transgender Film Festival.Red Rattler.Sydney.

Being held in Sydney, films  of The London Transgender Film Festival exhibit content of transgender, intersex, androgyny, gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons of all natures, all races and cultures, ages and abilities….

By showing these films its aim is to increase trans visibility and acknowledgement, question the gender binary, to dispel ignorance and demystify stereotypes, unite and support a diverse LGBTQIH community and celebrate trans spaces and their friends.

21st & 28th Oct
Screening Red Rattler, Newtown
6 Faversham St.
Marrickville NSW 2204

Sydney 21st Oct, Wednesday
Session One – 83mins
7-8.30pm

Short – I Am Not A Boy.
Dir: Julie Joyce, Johnny Khan, Matthew Khan.USA. 6min
Feature – The Believers
Dir: Todd Holland, USA, 77mins

Session Two – 94mins
9pm – 10.30pm

Shorts Programme
Genderwot? – Dir: Joie Rey Jana Lynn Cohen. USA. 12mins
Felicia – Dir:Tim O’Hara.USA. 8mins
Two Spirited People – Dir: Michel Beauchemin, Lori Levy & Gretchen Vogel. USA.20mins
Playing With Gender – Dir: Ashly Altadonna. USA.7mins
The Bond – Dir: Michael Connell. USA. 6mins
Fagette – Dir: Ali Cotterill. USA. 4mins
Thorn In Your Side – Dir: Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. USA.5mins
Not So Black Or White – Dir: xyzcruise.Aust. 4mins
Are You A Girl Or What?- Dir: Mathilda Piehl. Africa. 30mins

28th oct Wednesday
Session One – 80mins
7 – 8.30pm

Short – Odd One Out, Very Normal Really: From Lucas to Luus
Dir: Charlotte Hoogakker. HOLLAND. 20mins
Feature – Against A Trans Narrative
Dir: JulesRosskam. USA. 60mins

Session Two – 80mins
9 – 10.30pm
Short – Trannymals
Dir: Dylan Vade. USA. 3mins
Feature – U-People
Dir: Hanifah Walidah and Olive Demetrius USA. 76mins

Director/programmer
Col Cruise

Tickets $10 full / $7 concession per night @ door

Doors Open 6.30pm.

Red Rattler website

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The Laramie Project a tribute to Matthew Shepherd

RED STITCH TO REPRESENT VICTORIA IN
GLOBAL READING OF HISTORIC WORK,
THE LARAMIE PROJECT – 10 YEARS LATER

In a 24 hour period, over one hundred theatre companies worldwide will take part in a historic reading of the epilogue to the seminal work, The Laramie Project to

On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted the violence and prejudice lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face.

A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the seminal play, The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. The work has been seen by more than 50 million people in the US alone. Recognised as a modern classic, it is one of the most acclaimed and frequently staged plays of the past 10 years.

Tectonic’s eagerly awaited epilogue, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later will be performed in over 100 theatres in all fifty states of the USA, in Canada, UK, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia on October 12/13, 2009. Red Stitch is honoured to have been invited to take part.

The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes new interviews with Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard and Mathew’s murderer Aaron McKinney, who’s serving two consecutive life sentences. The writers also conducted many follow-up interviews Laramie residents from the original piece.

“The Tectonic Theater Project set out to find out how Laramie had changed in the ten years since the murder of Matthew Shepard. When we arrived, we were forced to confront the question, ‘How do you measure change in a community?’ One of the things we found when we got there, which greatly surprised us, was how many people in Laramie were trying to say this was not a hate crime,” said Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.

Performance Date: Tuesday 13 October, 7.30pm
Venue: BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne, AUST
Tickets: $10
Bookings: www.redstitch.net, tel: 03 9553 8083
Media enquiries: TS Publicity on (03) 9419 8837

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A bespoke season of film dedicated to Marc Jacobs at ACMI

Drag queens, porn stars, washed-up rock stars, A-list fashion personnel and D-list celebrities - Marc Jacobs has a coterie of followers that hang onto him tightly, despite his insistence that he’s not cool. The designer who brought grunge to the catwalk is celebrating 25 years in the fashion biz, and continues to successfully operate mostly on intuition, Moxie soft drink and a dose of self-induced terror.

To applaud the man behind the superbrand ACMI has hooked up with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009 to weave together Marc Jacobs on Film,  dedicated to the designer’s career, creations and collaborations. The season kicks off with the Australian premiere of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. Director Loïc Prigent turns his camera lens towards the designer extraordinaire and Creative Director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton just in time for the birth of the handbag to beat all handbags – made up entirely of earlier Vuitton handbags!

The four screenings of this film will be introduced by festival guest Bryanboy who came to notoriety for his cybermusings on all things fashion. The internationally-adored superblogger is here to brag about the ‘BB Bag’ created in his honour for the Fall 2008-09 Collection by Marc Jacobs.

Saturday 29 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
Full $13 Concession $10
3 Session Package: Full $30 Concession $24

Full film program at ACMI.

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perverscite festival in montreal. demonstrating queer activism and gay pride

This year’s Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride” – will be taking place from August 6 to 16, 2009 throughout the city of Montreal.

As Divers/cite becomes more and more corporate and less and less accountable to the history it represents, there is a growing need for a community response to the depoliticization of Pride.

Once again, a coalition of radical queer individuals and groups wants to organize a series of events, workshops, panel discussions, and actions to coincide with Divers/cite. The aim of this year`s series is to address issues normally pushed to the margins by the mainstream gay agenda.

http://www.perverscite.org/

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Anna Helmes short film MC GFC screens in Montreal.

Coral short and bildwechsel present international DIY film culture to you with an amazing bill of shorts from europe, north america and australia.

bildwechsel is a powerful european feminist film archive based in hamburg that has been around for over 30 years, and coral short has been working with them for almost a decade. come out and enjoy an eclectic mix of gay videos while munching on free popcorn!

Editor’s note: Tempting isn’t it? I mean the free popcorn hehe. But you’d have to spend a fortune to get to Montreal for Anna Helmes international debut of  MC GFC!!

Seriously congrats to DIY queens Anna Helme and Arlene Texta Queen who continue to push the boundaries of what can only be considered for a fragile maiden’s heart – hardcore fun.

Anna’s short film MC GFC is a high camp allegorical tale about an angel who must use her talents to help solve the global fashion crisis. And Goddess only knows what a state that’s in! Watch this space for more screamings of the film!

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Lesbian donors take action over being shunned

College student Li Yu instinctively answered a call last week from the government for blood donation, but it was her honesty that caused authorities to turn her away.

“I don’t understand why and I feel discriminated against,” Li, 20, told China Daily.

Li is a lesbian. Healthcare workers rejected her blood because she declared her sexual orientation on a mandatory health form.

Li is one of the latest lesbians to face such treatment under regulations that bar homosexuals from donating blood because of health concerns.

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