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THE SONS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, tells the story of the gay men of New Orleans who created a vast and fantastic culture of wildly popular ‘drag balls’ starting in the late 1950s. These men worked with the traditions of Mardi Gras to bring gay culture into public settings in the early 1960s. By 1969, there were four gay Mardi Gras clubs legally chartered by the state of Louisiana, throwing yearly extravaganzas at civic venues around the city. ‘Society matrons begged for ball tickets from their hairdressers’. They succeeded in bringing down the ‘Jim Crow’ type laws that targeted gay people during this period, staging a flamboyant, costumed revolution without politics and won freedoms during a time, as now, when laws and people fought against them.

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Tim Wolff is a documentary filmmaker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his education at CalArts in the directing for theatre and film program, studying closely with legendary director Alexander Mackendrick. In 1999, he began the first of 4 productions at HBO as a prouducer. He produced two segments of the show Real Sex, working with „Wigstock: the movie” filmmaker Barry Shils. „The Sons of Tennesse Williams”, his first feature, appeared at over 30 film festivals around the world. „Sons” was acquired by First Run Features in January of 2011 for full distribution including theatrical release, DVD and Netflix. In July of 2013, Mr. Wolff was invited by the U. S. State Department to attend 8 screenings of „Sons” in 4 cities in China, representing the first time that the U. S. government had supported an LGBT film screening in public. His next feature is MOTHER: , an exploration of the African-American drag pageant culture of New Orleans, starring transgendered rap artist Katey Red.

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“There were so many people that were part of the early response to AIDS – many of whom are no longer with us. Before we lose many more of those voices and memories, I thought it was important to preserve history in the words of those who lived it – day to day – during the onset of the AIDS epidemic.” – Paul Volberding
„Life Before the Lifeboat” is the first reflective look back at how doctors, nurses and community leaders felt as they were responding to the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco during the earliest years of the epidemic. How did health workers in San Francisco take us from the realities of life during the early days of AIDS, to the lifeboat, which would eventually allow people to live with the disease?
The film features intimate conversations between Dr. Paul Volberding and some of San Francisco’s courageous leaders from the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic. The documentary highlights how political and gay activists, along with San Francisco General Hospital, came together to navigate the early years of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. The General served as the nexus for AIDS treatment in the beginning where, according to a New York Times article, Volberding and others developed what became known as the “San Francisco model” for AIDS treatment. The model was a comprehensive and rational approach to delivering care while trying to understand the science behind AIDS at a time when deep-seated fear and paranoia surrounded the disease.
Among others, the film includes conversations with Cleve Jones, AIDS Memorial Quilt founder, Mervyn Silverman, former head of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health and United States Ambassador and Dr. Eric Goosby, the State Department’s Global AIDS Coordinator. Each of the conversations takes the audience into a world that no longer exists today sometimes graphically describing the fear and humiliation that surrounded the disease. Lifeboat also captures the essence of how San Francisco’s medical, political and Gay activist communities came together to get through the dark years and emerge stronger individually and as a community. The film ends in the early 90s, when antiretroviral drugs provided, in effect, a lifeboat for people with HIV/AIDS.

June 2011 marks 30 years since the CDC (Center for Disease Control) first reported about AIDS. While the AIDS epidemic was prevalent in most major US cities, for its first decade it was perceived as primarily a disease of gay men. San Francisco’s identity as the „gay haven,” made its experience of the epidemic singularly concentrated and intense. This unique environment left doctors, nurses and the community with no choice but to push past personal, professional and legal boundaries. San Francisco gave birth to radical new ways of caring for the dying and approaching disease that would influence the whole country, and later the world.”
The film was created by Kathaka Films.

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Un scurt documentar care explorează lupta zilnică şi dificultăţile cu care se confruntă persoanele în vârstă care fac parte din comunitatea g/l/b/t  din San Francisco.

A short documentary exploring the struggles of aging within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community.

Eastern Boys – (France, 2013)

EASTERN BOYS WON BEST FILM in the Orizzonti section at the 70thVenice. 

„They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Ukraine. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes, but there is no way of knowing for certain. Muller, a discreet man in his late fifties has his eye on one of them – Marek. One afternoon, Muller gathers his courage and speaks to him. The young man agrees to come visit Muller the following day, at his place. However the next day, when the doorbell rings, Muller doesn’t have the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.”

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Eastern European immigration and the nature of homosexuality are the themes that coalesce in this genre-bending French thriller that draws you in to a web of intrigue from the opening titles. Provocative and slick to look at, it comes from Robin Campillo, a long-time collaborator of Laurent Cantet (Vers Le Sud, The Class, Les Revenants).

In the Gare Du Nord in Paris, gangs of Eastern European migrants hang around looking for opportunities. One of them is the alluring Marek (Kirill Emelyanov) who catches the eye of Daniel (Olivier Rabourdin), a middle-aged business-man who is cruising for company.  What follows is a shocking and thought-provoking thriller, an immersive love story and a disturbing police drama with shifts in tone that feel entirely plausible yet at the same time highly innovative.  EASTERN BOYS succeeds as a drama with gay and art house sensibilities and mainstream appeal. MT

 

Lost in paradise – (Vietnam, 2011)

LOST IN PARADISE – (film in vietnamese w. English subtitle)

„O emoţionantă poveste de dragoste între un băiat gay de la ţară care s-a mutat recent la oraş şi un…”

Khoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It’s his first time in the big city and he’s looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment. When Khoi goes to check the place out, he meets Lam, who also appears to be living there. Khoi decides to stay, but while he showers, Dong and Lam – who turn out to be boyfriends – run off with all his cash and belongings. It’s not long before Lam is himself abandoned by Dong, and winds up back on the street as a prostitute. Meanwhile the penniless and disillusioned Khoi takes on menial jobs to survive. Lam and Khoi are eventually reunited, and despite Lam’s past actions, the two become closer and closer – even though Khoi becomes more and more troubled by Lam’s dangerous source of income. At the same time, Cuoi, a mentally handicapped man abandoned by his family, attempts to befriend a female prostitute. Her pimps do not take kindly to his hanging around and scaring away customers, but she takes pity on him and ultimately becomes his protector.

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” I’ve heard a lot of hype about this movie being the first homosexual movie and usually when people hype things it turn out bad. However, I loved this movie; it lived up to my expectations and beyond. The storyline was touching, I was engaged and I felt what the people on screen were feeling. It left me speechless and I’m so touched by it! „

” For me, this is not the first homosexual movie in Vietnam, the first one I have seen was „Trai Nhay” which was more of a comedy and a pretty darn good one too. However, it does take a lot of gut to come out with a heartfelt homosexual movie in such a narrow minded society. „

K (Film a prostituáltakról – Rákóczi tér)

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K (Rákóczi tér – Un film despre prostituţie)

Un film documentar din 1988, de György Dobray, despre prostituţia masculină cât şi desprea cea feminină în Ungaria ultimilor ani ai comunismului.

 

„Negyedszázaddal ezelőtt került a mozikba a 80-as évek talán legnagyobb vihart kavart filmje. Dobray György dokumentumfilmje, olyan, akkoriban tabunak számító témákról beszélt, mint a prostitúció, a szex, a férfiprostik, vagy mint a transzvesztiták.
Mivel dokumentumfilmről van szó, így minden szereplő igazából önmagát alakította. hogy ezeket a szereplőket le ne tartóztassák üzletszerű kéjelgés miatt, így úgy mutatták be őket, mint szerződtetett színészeket. A rendező ragaszkodott ahhoz, hogy ezeket a szereplőket életszerű helyzetekben mutassa be, így az egyik jelenetet például aktus közben vették fel.
Nehéz főszereplőket kiemelni, hiszen a történet ezeknek a lányoknak a jövőtlenségéről, kihasználtságukról és nyomorúságos életéről szól.úgy általában. Ám, ha meg kellene nevezni akkor a két főhős a prosti párduc, illetve az ő stricije Tarzan. Nm tudom, hogy Tarzan tényleg ekkora állat volt-e, vagy csak a kamerának játszotta az agyát, de ő a film legmegvetendőbb szereplője. [van is erről egy sztori, hogy amikor a film díszbemutatóján kiment a közönség elé ünnepeltetni magát.]
Ha igazak az interneten terjengő pletykák, akkor a strici teljesen legatyásodott, míg párduc sorsa jóra fordult, és családot alapított.
A film „második része” egy év múlva készült el, az a történet a szállodákban dolgozó prostituáltak életét mutatja be.
Elég kemény, néhol letaglózó dokumentumfilm.”