Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at

La Fémis La Fémis (French: ''École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son''; "National Superior School for the Professions of Image and Sound", formerly known as the ''Institut des hautes études cinématographiques'', IDHEC) is a Fren ...

, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admission is ...

, and has a bachelor's degree from the

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in history of art. He is Jewish, and gay.

Career

Lifshitz's work involves

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themes. His 2004 film, '' Wild Side'', involves several narratives, some told forward and some backward, about a

transsexual Transsexual people experience a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex, and desire to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including sex reassignment ...

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. He is a two-time winner of the

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 a ...

, presented by an independent committee at the

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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 ''

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'', a documentary profile of transgender French entertainer

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."Berlin's Teddy Family"
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'', March 2013. On 20 May 2014, Rizzoli International published Lifshitz's ''The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride'', a collection of gay-themed photos from the early 20th century.James Nichols, ''Huffington Post'' (May 5, 2015)
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Filmography

Bibliography

*Rees-Robertsn, N. ''French Queer Cinema'' (2008). *Reeser, T. "Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s," In ''Queer Cinema in Europe'' (2008). *Reeser, T. "Transsexuality and the Disruption of Time in Sebastien Lifshitz's Wild Side," in ''Studies in French Cinema'' (2007).

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* 1968 births French male screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French Jews University of Paris alumni Living people Film directors from Paris LGBT Jews LGBT film directors LGBT screenwriters Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French gay writers {{France-screen-writer-stub