Filmek
Queer Artivism
Slovenia
Director: Masa Zia LENARDIC & Anja WUTEJ
96 min. 2013,
with dialogue, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Croatian, English subtitled
Distributor: Masa Zia Lenardic
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Producer: Masa Zia Lenardic
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Screenplay: Masa Zia Lenardic, Anja Wutej
Cinematographer: Masa Zia Lenardic
Music: Dance Yourself to Death & Sick of Sarah
Editor: Jasna Hribernik, Masa Zia Lenardic
Cast:
Maria Laura Annibali, John Badalu, Patrícia Bateira, Itxaso Beistegi, Alec Butler, Juanma Carrillo, Jerry Carlsson, Julia Csabai, Antonio Da Silva, Anette Gunnarsson, Jamie Holm, Jen Markowitz, Juanan Martínez, Ana David, Zvonimir Dobrović, Jessie Farmer, João Federici, João Ferreira, Jessica Forsythe, Xiana García Freire, Richard García Vázquez, Pau G. Guillén, Matthew Mishory, Katie Murphy, Victor Nascimento, Mascha Nehls, Miriam Ortega Domínguez, Alessandro Paesano, Slavica Parlov, María Popova, Luca Ragazzi, Jan Soldat, Gulya Sultanova, Abisha Uhl and Manfred.
Queer Artivism offers an insight into five different queer film festivals through video footage and interviews with the organizers. With this it gives people who do not have the opportunity to visit various queer film festivals, a chance to experience at least five by going to just one film festival. Additionally it is a tribute to queer film festivals and presents different points of view on the current status of queer film festivals and queer films. It is also a tribute to filmmakers, festival organizers and all the people who usually remain unseen, but without whom queer film festivals and films would not exist. Throughout the documentary interviewees (festival organizers, filmmakers and musicians) share their personal stories and elaborate on the importance of queer film festivals and queer film, opening a new space for discussion, reflection and evaluation of queer film festivals and queer film in todays society.
Major screenings, presentations:
- OMOVIES (December 2013, Italy)
- MixBrasil (November 2013, Brazil)
- LesGaiCineMad (November 2013, Spain)
- Ferfilm International Film Festival (October 2013, Kosovo).
Masa Zia LENARDIC & Anja WUTEJ
MA©A ZIA LENÁRDIČ: Born in 1984, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduated from Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security in Ljubljana. In 2011 she starts working as a self-‐taught freelance filmmaker (camera assistant, director, cinematographer, editor, still photographer). She has been a camera assistant, still photographer and second cameraman in several feature films, documentaries, promo films and ads since 2011. Her first independent short film ''Take It / Break It'' (2011) has been screened at 20 international film festivals all around the world. In October 2012 she finished her second independent short film ''(A)Typical Couple'' which is currently circling around the film festival circuit. Documentary ''Queer Artivism'' (2013) is her first feature length film.
ANJA WUTEJ: Born in 1985, in Maribor, Slovenia. Graduated from Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is working as a translator/interpreter (for German, English and Slovenian) and is interested in music, literature, theatre, film and crafts. Her first short film ''Take It / Break It'' (2011) has been so far screened at 20 international film festivals all around the world. In October 2012 she finished her second independent short film ''(A)Typical Couple'' which is currently circling around the film festival circuit. She has gained acting experience by appearing in several theatre plays and feature, short and promo films. Furthermore she has many years of experience in choir singing and music theatre. Documentary ''Queer Artivism'' (2013) is her first feature length film.
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