Anita Gou is no stranger to the festival circuit. Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance but, more recently, her co-production Silent Twins was selected in Un Certain Regard in 2022, while Dominic Savage’s Close To You premiered in Toronto last year. The company’s Mubi-acquired doc The Last Year of Darkness, which explores the lives of alternative Chinese youth, was awarded a Special Mention prize in the Next:Wave section at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival last year.
This year, the producer, who has roots in Taiwan, was back in Cannes with Locust, the debut feature from Taiwanese-American filmmaker Keff, which played in Cannes Critics’ Week. The project is set during the 2019 Hong Kong protests and follows Zhong-Han,...
This year, the producer, who has roots in Taiwan, was back in Cannes with Locust, the debut feature from Taiwanese-American filmmaker Keff, which played in Cannes Critics’ Week. The project is set during the 2019 Hong Kong protests and follows Zhong-Han,...
- 5/22/2024
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
For 2024, Queer East Festival launches its fifth year milestone with a remarkable line up of film screenings, arts and performance events across London from 17 to 28 April 2024 and then across the UK later in the year. The programme includes contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special anniversary and retrospective screenings that showcase a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia and their diaspora communities.
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
- 3/20/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Darkness isn’t to be feared. It’s where daytime struggles melt away, and where the irresistible pull of neon lights and a throbbing bass can free you from uncertainty — if just for a night. But what happens when the outside world encroaches and the vital release of that escape is suddenly under threat?
American director Ben Mullinkosson started filming “The Last Year of Darkness” to document the lives of his friends, a ragtag assortment of DJs, ravers, drag performers and skaters who all found themselves and each other in the pulsating world of Funky Town, a queer underground club hidden away in Chengdu. Shot across five years and distilled from 600 hours of footage, Mullinkosson’s second feature intimately captures the euphoric joy of China’s alternative club scene, a place where outsiders, and queer people especially, can be who they want to be. And yet the end result is...
American director Ben Mullinkosson started filming “The Last Year of Darkness” to document the lives of his friends, a ragtag assortment of DJs, ravers, drag performers and skaters who all found themselves and each other in the pulsating world of Funky Town, a queer underground club hidden away in Chengdu. Shot across five years and distilled from 600 hours of footage, Mullinkosson’s second feature intimately captures the euphoric joy of China’s alternative club scene, a place where outsiders, and queer people especially, can be who they want to be. And yet the end result is...
- 3/12/2024
- by David Opie
- Indiewire
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