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One of the aspects that has characterized us and has given the
prestige to the Festival in this first decade has been the scoop
of the selected films, all them without being distributed in the
Spanish State and under a rigorous programming. The selection has
been made with strictness and professionality, supervised by
Xavier-Daniel, starting from an average of 700 films per year
which are submitted in each edition and more than fifty
participant countries, is part of the balance.
On the other hand along the present decade, we have payed tribute
to personalities that because of their professional reasons and
also for humanitarian trajectory to the rights LGTIB have deserved
them.
Those who have received our Tribute personally are: Rob Epstein (two
Oscar of Hollywood for his vindicating documentaries, The
Celluloid Closet), Alan Cumming (Eyes Wide Shut, Sex and the City,
Spy Kids, X-Men2), Ingrid Caven (actress, widow and muse of
R.W.Fassbinder, In a year of 13 moons, María Malibran's death),
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (Doña Herlinda and her son, pioneer of
the gay movies in Mexico), Zazie of Paris (actress and singing
transgender, Westler),Harry Baer (Querelle, Fox and shis friends)
actor, friend and collaborator of Fassbinder), Edie Windsor (veteran
activist, Stonewall), Josep Maixenchs (founder and director of
ESCAC, Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya)...
And those who have presided over or taken part of the
international juries, among others are: Randal Kleiser (Grease),
Chastity Bono (now Chaz Bono, son of Cher), Patricia Nell Warren (writer
of the best seller The Front Runner), Moritz of Hadeln (former
director of Berlinale and Mostra of Venice), Manuela Kay (Internationale
Filmfestspiele Berlin), Eloy De La Iglesia (The Deputy), Stephen
Gutwillig (Outfest, Los Angeles LGBT FF), Vincenzo Patané (writer,
historian), Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader), Alan Baker (El
beso de la mujer araña), Joel Joan (chairman of the Academy of
Catalan Cinema)...
This year, we wish to pay tribute to Giovanni Minerba, founder and
director of the first European festival specialized in thematic
GLBT, nominated From Sodoma To Hollywood which has celebrated the
25th anniversary in Turin.
Let’s celebrate this first decade of the Festival together with
Giovanni, specially because he has been a founder pioneer in
Europe (from 1986), as our director Xavier-Daniel himself has been
in Spain (since 1995).
Lluís Valentí
Founder and member of the boards of the Academy of Catalan Cinema
and the International LGTIB Film Festival of Catalonia. Member of
the Filmmakers Board of Catalonia. |
