London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) is a film festival for films with bi-, trans- and homosexual content.
As a forerunner, Richard Dyer organized a film festival with 30 films in 1977. However, this remained a single event for a long time. The festival has been held in spring in London since 1986 and is organized by the British Film Institute . Mark Finch put together a program of nine films in five days from a program of the Tyneside Film Festival ( Tyneside Cinema ) by Peter Packer and called it Gay's Own Pictures . In 1988 the film festival was given its current name. In the first few years the festival lasted two weeks, but was then shortened to one week. The films will be shown in the BFI Southbank cinema .
In the months after the actual festival in London at the end of March, a selection under the title London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour was on tour in several cities in the United Kingdom and Ireland until at least 2010 and was partly incorporated into the schedule of local gay prides or other cultural events . In 2006, for example, it stopped in 40 cities and towns from May to September. In 2010 it was three months on the road.
meaning
The festival is the third largest film festival in the United Kingdom and the largest (2007) and third largest (2011) queer film festival in Europe. It is the UK's longest running queer film festival.
| year | Days | Visitors | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | ||
| 2003 | 25,000 | ||
| 2004 | 24,000 | ||
| 2007 | 24,500 | ||
| 2011 | 6th | 16,000 | |
| 2012 | 10 | 21,224 |
The festival is big enough that the program makers wait until just before Christmas for offers from interested filmmakers whose works have not yet been released in the UK.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 20.03.12: BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival returns for 26th year ( Memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Film London Microwave, March 20, 2012
- ↑ "London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour 2010" in Tyneside Cinema 08/2010 ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, p. 17
- ↑ "Birmingham's Festival Of Queer Culture 4th-23rd November 2010" in: Midlands Zone 10/2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.4 MB), midlandszone.co.uk, p. 20
- ↑ 20th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , filmmovement.com
- ^ A spirit of discovery at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival , The Independent, March 19, 2010
- ↑ a b c London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival 2007 , filmfestivals.com
- ↑ The 23rd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cherrygrrl.com, March 23, 2009
- ↑ a b 25TH London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , manchesterpride.com, March 22, 2011
- ↑ London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2012, gaytravel.com
- ^ The 17th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , 2003, outuk.com/llgff
- ↑ David Benedict: London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Has Fake Cary, Thai Boxer , Bloomberg, March 29, 2005
- ↑ BFI press release: Film Festival bounces back with 26th edition in 2012 (PDF; 117 kB), December 22, 2011
- ↑ BFI press release: London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival closes on a high (PDF; 277 kB), bfi.org.uk
