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List Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Or Transgender-related Films Of 2013
Films References {{DEFAULTSORT:LGBT-related films of 2013 * Films 2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ... 2013-related lists ... [...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] |
American Vagabond
''American Vagabond'' is a 2013 Finnish documentary film directed by Susanna Helke. Content Starring James Temple and Tyler Johnson, the documentary is a story of how Temple and Johnson's move to San Francisco because Temple's parents have kicked him out of home for being gay. Very soon the city, which they had envisioned as their promised one, reveals its harsh reality as they end up homeless. Reception The film won the Q Hugo Jury Special Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, where it also had its North American Premier. It also won the best Documentary Film Jury Award at the Rochester ImageOut Festival. The film was nominated for the Best Nordic Documentary Film Award at the Nordisk Panorama Festival 2013 and was selected into the Masters section of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA 2013. The film was screened at the 2013 Visions du Réel festival, the DOKLeipzig International Documentary Film Festival 2013, Montreal International Docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Candelabra
''Behind the Candelabra'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It dramatizes the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with Scott Thorson. It is based on Thorson's memoir, '' Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace'' (1988). Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay. Jerry Weintraub was the executive producer. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2013, and competed for the Palme d'Or. It aired on HBO on May 26, 2013, and was given a cinematic release in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2013. The film received critical acclaim from television critics, including praise for the performances of Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. It marked the final onscreen acting role for Debbie Reynolds before her death in 2016. Plot In 1977, 18-year-old Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), who works as an animal trainer for films, meets Bob Black (Scott Bakula), a Hollywood producer, in a gay bar in Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PJ Raval
PJ Raval is a queer first-generation Filipinos, Filipino-United States, American filmmaker known for his documentary films about underrepresented subcultures and identities within the LGBT community, LGBTQ+ community. Raval is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Robert Giard Fellow, a member of the Producers Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences. Raval was named one of ''Filmmaker (magazine), Filmmaker''s ''25 New Faces of Independent Film'' in 2006 and was a featured creator in the 2010 ''Out (magazine), Out 100''. Today, he lives in Texas and is an associate professor of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Moody College of Communication in the University of Texas at Austin. Early life PJ Raval was born on April 15, 1974, in Princeton, New Jersey, but was raised in Clovis, California. Raval lived in San Diego for 10 years, then obtained an MFA in Film and Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin. Career In 2008, PJ Raval co-directed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before You Know It (2013 Film)
''Before You Know It'' is a 2013 documentary directed by PJ Raval following the lives of three gay seniors as they navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of life and love in their golden years. Formerly known lovingly as ''Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary''. Synopsis The subjects of ''Before You Know It'' are no ordinary senior citizens. They are go-go booted bar-hoppers, love struck activists, troublemaking baton twirlers, late night Internet cruisers, seasoned renegades, and bold adventurers. They are also among the estimated 2.4 million LGBT Americans over the age of 55 in the U.S. many of whom face heightened levels of discrimination, neglect and exclusion. But ''Before You Know It'' is not a film about cold statistics, it's a film about generational trailblazers who have surmounted prejudice and defied expectation to form communities of strength, renewal and camaraderie. ''Before You Know It'' focuses on the lives of three gay seniors, but reminds us that while LGB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interview (magazine)
''Interview'' is an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock. The magazine, nicknamed "The Crystal Ball of Pop", features interviews with celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers. Interviews were usually unedited or edited in the eccentric fashion of Warhol's books and ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again''. History Andy Warhol period Bob Colacello was a film student at Columbia University in 1970 when he got a call from someone at ''Interview'' while he was having dinner at his parents’ house in suburban Long Island. Warhol had read a film review Colacello had written for ''The Village Voice'' and wanted to meet him. Colacello subsequently began writing film reviews and essays for ''Interview''. After about six months, Colacello was promoted to editor of the magazine, at a salary of $50 a week. (He also received course credits, as he was still working on his master’s degree at Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Award
The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale). In the most part, the jury consists of organisers of gay and lesbian film festivals, who view films screened in all sections of the Berlinale; films do not have to have been part of the festival's official competition stream to be eligible for Teddy awards. Subsequently, a list of films meeting criteria for LGBT content is selected by the jury, and a 3,000-Euro Teddy is awarded to a feature film, a short film and a documentary. At the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016, a dedicated "Teddy30" lineup of classic LGBT-related films was screened as a full program of the festival to celebrate the award's 30th anniversary. History In 1987 German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber formed a jury called the International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Association (IGLFFA) to creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Pierre Pruvot
Marie-Pierre Pruvot (also known under the pseudonym Marie-Pier Ysser; born 11 November 1935) is an Algerian-born French transgender woman who performed under the stage name Bambi. She performed in a transgender showgirl revue at Le Carrousel de Paris for approximately 20 years.Dayan, Josée (dir). (2008) Nous n'irons plus au bois.'' o More Hide and SeekPassionfilms While performing regularly, she appeared in several documentaries, including the 1959 film ''Costa Azzurra'', directed by Vittorio SalaSala, Vittorio (dir.) (1959). Costa Azzurra.' Glomer Film and the 1963 film ''90 notti in giro per il mondo'', directed by Mino Loy.Loy, Mino (1963). 90 notti in giro per il mondo.' Documento Film During her entertainment career, she acquired university degrees at the Sorbonne in Paris, subsequently becoming a teacher of literature in 1974. She was initially appointed in Cherbourg; two years later, she began teaching at Garges-lès-Gonesse, and remained there for the next 25 years. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sébastien Lifshitz
Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of art. He is Jewish, and gay. Career Lifshitz's work involves LGBT, LGBTQ+ themes. His 2004 film, ''Wild Side (2004 film), Wild Side'', involves several narratives, some told forward and some backward, about a transsexual prostitute. He is a two-time winner of the Teddy Award, presented by an independent committee at the Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival to the year's best films with LGBT themes, winning Best Feature Film in 2004 for ''Wild Side'' and Best Documentary Film in 2013 for ''Bambi (2013 film), Bambi'', a documentary profile of transgender French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambi (2013 Film)
''Bambi'' is a French documentary film, released in 2013. Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, the film is a profile of Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian-born trans woman who had a long and prominent career as a dancer and showgirl in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, under the stage name Bambi, before becoming a high school teacher."Berlin's Teddy Family" '''', March 2013. The film won the for Best Documentary Film at the |
Tom Malloy
Thomas John Malloy (born December 8, 1974) is an American actor and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Career Malloy wrote, produced and acted in ''The Alphabet Killer'', a psychological thriller directed by Rob Schmidt and starring Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton and Michael Ironside; and '' The Attic'', a thriller directed by Mary Lambert and starring John Savage, Jason Lewis, and Elisabeth Moss. He has written, produced and starred in the 2009 film '' Love N' Dancing'', a dance film/romantic comedy directed by Rob Iscove that stars Amy Smart, Billy Zane, Betty White and Rachel Dratch. Malloy has acted in other films, including ''Gravesend'', and on television shows including ''Law & Order'', ''Third Watch'' and ''Kidnapped''. He wrote the book ''Bankroll: A New Approach To Financing Feature Films'' in 2009. A 2nd Edition of the book came out in 2012. In 2013, Malloy partnered with LA based independent film producer Jason Brubaker to create The Film Fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Madsen
Michael Søren Madsen (born September 25, 1957) is an American actor. He has starred in many films and television series, frequently collaborating with director Quentin Tarantino, most famously in the latter's debut film ''Reservoir Dogs'' (1992). Early life Madsen was born on September 25, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Elaine (née Melson; born 1932), was a filmmaker and author. His father, Calvin Christian Madsen (1927–2015), was a World War II Navy veteran and a firefighter with the Chicago Fire Department. His parents divorced in the 1960s, and his mother left the financial world to pursue a career in the arts, encouraged by film critic Roger Ebert. His siblings are Cheryl Madsen, an entrepreneur, and Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen. Madsen's paternal grandparents were Danish, while his mother is of English, German, Irish, Native American and Scottish ancestry. Career Madsen began working at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
