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Apolo Awards
The Apolo Awards (Spanish: Premios Apolo de cine LGTB) are annual awards given to the best LGBT-themed films that have been released in Spain. Since 2016 they have been awarded by LGBT culture outlet ''Dos Manzanas'', with the intention to highlight high-quality filmmaking in order to encourage more LGBT-themed works to be distributed in the country. History The Apolo Awards were founded in 2016 by ''Dos Manzanas''. The magazine and website ''Dos Manzanas'' reports on LGBT culture in Spain as well as advocating for LGBT+ equality. After informally awarding LGBT-themed book awards in 2015, ''Dos Manzanas'' started the Apolo Awards, referencing Olympian god Apollo, with an aim to vindicate distributing LGBT-themed works in Spain by celebrating the high quality of LGBT+ films. They also award the Spanish distributors who help combat LGBT-phobia by being brave enough to choose to show the films. Many nominees and winners are thus the best international productions, with fewer Spanish f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism ', which began to replace the term ''gay'' (or ''gay and lesbian'') in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, ', adds the letter ''Q'' for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity. The initialisms ''LGBT'' or ''GLBT'' are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. History of the term The first widely used term, '' homosexual'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Weitz (filmmaker)
Paul John Weitz (born November 19, 1965) is an American filmmaker, playwright, and actor. He is the older brother of filmmaker Chris Weitz. Together they worked on the comedy films ''American Pie (film), American Pie'' and ''About a Boy (film), About a Boy''; for the latter, they were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Weitz is also a writer, executive producer, and director of the Amazon Prime Video web series ''Mozart in the Jungle''. Early life Weitz was born in New York City, the son of actress Susan Kohner and Berlin-born novelist/menswear designer John Weitz. His brother is filmmaker Chris Weitz. Weitz is the grandson of Czech people, Czech-born agent and producer Paul Kohner and actress Lupita Tovar on his maternal side. Tovar, who was from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, starred in ''Santa (1932 film), Santa'', Mexico's first talkie, in 1932, as well as a Mexican version of ''Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film), Drácula''. Weitz' paternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Lily Amirpour
Ana Lily Amirpour ( fa, آنا لیلی امیرپور) is a British-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her Directorial debut, feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-described as "the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western" that made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and which was based on a previous short film that she wrote and directed, which won Best Short Film at the 2012 Noor Iranian Film Festival. Early life Amirpour was born in Margate, England, and moved to Miami, Florida with her family when she was young. Her family then settled in Bakersfield, California, where she attended high school. She began studying biology at UC Santa Barbara, but dropped out after one year. Later she returned to school to study painting and sculpting, attending San Francisco State University for her undergraduate degree, and then studied screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television . S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Khaou
Hong Khaou (born 22 October 1975) is a Cambodian-British film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his debut feature film ''Lilting'' and the short films ''Summer'' and ''Spring''. Early life Khaou was born in Cambodia to Chinese-Cambodian parents. He was a few months old when he and his family fled to Vietnam after the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. When he was 8 years old, his family migrated to the United Kingdom in the 1980s as political refugees. Education Khaou studied BA (Hons) Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, formerly the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, graduating in 1997. Career Khaou's short film ''Spring'' played at both the Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011, with his previous short ''Summer'' also having premiered at Berlin in 2006. His debut feature film ''Lilting'' was produced under the Film London micro-budget scheme Microwave, and was released on 8 Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Sepúlveda
Sebastián Sepúlveda (born 1972) is a Chilean screenwriter, film producer, editor and director. Life and career Sepúlveda was born in Concepción, Chile. He lived the first 18 years of his life between Europe and South America due to his family's exile from Chile during the military regime. On return to Santiago in 1990, he began studying history. Towards the end of the 1990s Sepúlveda studied at two prestigious film schools, La Fémis in Paris (screenwriting) and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (editing) and began creating his first short films. He was involved in editing and writing a number of films in the 2000s, including '' Young and Wild'' (2012). Sepúlveda's directorial debut was the documentary ''O Areal'' ''(The Sandpit)'', about the Guajará community in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Sepúlveda received funding from Fonds Sud cinema (managed by France's Institut Français) to create his next film as director, ''The Quis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenia (film)
''Xenia'' ( gr, Ξενία lit. xenia) is a 2014 drama film directed by Panos H. Koutras. It was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Plot The film is about two brothers, Dany, 15, who is gay, and Odysseas (Ody), 18. Their mother, an Albanian singer, has recently died. Facing the threat of deportation, the brothers go on a road trip from Athens to Thessaloniki looking for their Greek father, and with him the possibility of gaining Greek citizenship. They are obsessed with the songs of the Italian singer Patty Pravo, and Ody, who has a good voice, plans to sing one of her songs in a talent contest.Holden Stephen (11 October 2015 ''Xenia: a fraternal bond and a quest''in ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 30 June 2017 Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorgos Lamprinos
Yorgos Lamprinos ( gr, Γιώργος Λαμπρινός) is a Greek-French film editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ... in the category Best Film Editing for the film '' The Father''. Selected filmography * '' The Father'' (2020) * '' The Son'' (2022) References External links * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) French people of Greek descent French film editors Greek film editors {{France-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52 Tuesdays
''52 Tuesdays'' is a 2013 Australian coming of age drama film directed by Sophie Hyde, with the screenplay written by Matthew Cormack and story by Cormack and Hyde. The film centres on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent. The film showed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, but won the Best Director Award. Over the following year it won numerous other awards and garnered global critical acclaim. Plot 16-year-old Billie lives in suburban Australia. One of her parents comes out to her as a transgender man named James. Billie then learns that James wants Billie to live with her other parent, James's ex-husband Tom, for a year. This restricts the time Billie is together with James to Tuesdays from 16:00 - 22:00, starting on 23 August. The film is divided into the corresponding 52 segments, each covering one Tuesday, and starting with a title card showing the date. Each Tuesday, after visiting James a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilting (film)
''Lilting'' () is a 2014 British romantic drama film written and directed by Cambodian-born British director Hong Khaou and produced by Dominic Buchanan. The film had its world premiere on 16 January 2014 on Day One of the Sundance Film Festival, at which it competed in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It won the "Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic" at the festival. The film was released theatrically in United Kingdom on 8 August 2014 and in the United States on 26 September 2014. Synopsis Lilting tells the story of a mother's attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover. Together, they attempt to overcome their grief whilst struggling against not having a shared language. Cast * Ben Whishaw as Richard * Cheng Pei-pei as Junn * Naomi Christie as Vann * Peter Bowles as Alan * Morven Christie as Margaret * Andrew Leung as Kai Production The script, originally titled ''Lilting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tchindas
''Tchindas'' is a 2015 Spanish-Cape Verdean documentary film directed by Pablo García Pérez de Lara and Marc Serena. The film premiered at the Outfest Los Angeles 2015 where it received a Grand Jury Award. Plot In the Atlantic Ocean, the tiny island of São Vicente works together to make something beautiful out of nothing: a Carnival. During the month leading up to the festivities we'll discover the struggles needed to achieve it through a person that coined a word: Tchinda. It is shot in the most gay-friendly African country, Cape Verde, according to Afrobarometer's 2016 report. Cast * Tchinda Andrade as herself * Elvis Tolentino as himself * Edinha Pitanga as herself Recognition ''The Hollywood Reporter'' praised the film, writing it was "a beautifully shot vérité chronicle of the all-consuming Carnival preparations on São Vicente". ''Tchindas'' picked up six awards in the five festivals which until now has been presented in competition: the Outfest, the Chicago Reel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo García Pérez De Lara
Pablo García Pérez de Lara (born 29 October 1970), is a Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed African documentaries such as ''Tchindas''. Personal life He was born in 1970 in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Center d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC). Career In 1996, he started his directorial debut with the film ''Fuente Álamo, the Caress of Time'' as a project grant from the Barcelona Alternativa festival. He completed the film in 2001 and then selected at the SEMINCI in Valladolid. The film had official selection in Karlovy Vary. Then in 2007, he made the film ''Butterfly'' which made the official section of Karlovy Vary and San Sebastián. In 2015, he made the critically acclaimed documentary ''Tchindas'' co-directed with Marc Serena. It was selected in several international film festivals and won 14 international awards. The film later won Outfest's Grand Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'' ( fa, دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود ) is a 2014 Persian-language American Western horror film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains. It was financed in part by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'' takes place in "the Iranian ghost-town Bad City" and depicts the doings of "a lonesome vampire". It was filmed in Taft, California, in black-and-white. It was chosen to show in the "Next" program of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Plot A young, hardworking Iranian man named Arash lives with and takes care of his heroin-addicted father, Hossein. They are harassed by a cruel, drug-dealer pimp named Saeed, who seizes the young man's prized car in exchange for money the father owes him. In a crime of opportunity, Arash steals a pair of diamond ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
