Queer Screen – based in Sydney, Australia is the country’s leading LGBTIQ+ screen culture organisation. They have been producing Australia’s premiere LGBTIQ+ film festival Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival (Feb/Mar) since 1993. They also host a second festival Queer Screen Film Fest as well as offering completion funding and a pitching competition.
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Queer Screen - Mardi Gras Film Festival
Projects
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Sunflower
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Gabriel Carrubba
Produced by: Producer(s): Gabriel Carrubba, Zane Borg | Production Compnay: Pancake Originals
Country of production: Australia
Original title: Sunflower
Language: English
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2023
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne’s edge.
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Closing Night
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Timothy Despina Marshall
Produced by: Bec Dakin & Timothy Despina Marshall | B&T Films, Orange Entertainment Co.
Country of production: Australia
Original title: Closing Night
Language: English
Runtime: 82'
Completed in: 2023
When his life falls apart, a young queer theatre actor, poised to play the lead in The Glass Menagerie, must reckon with his demons and fight for survival while trapped in a hotel room with a sinister presence.
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Triple Oh!
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Poppy Stockell | Writer: Erica Harrison
Produced by: Poppy Stockell, Alexandra Galloway, Tamasin Simpkin | Sirius Pictures
Country of production: Australia
Original title: Triple Oh!
Language: English
Runtime: 45'
Completed in: 2023
Triple Oh! is a dark comedy-drama following the lives of two ambulance paramedics, as they save lives in absurd medical emergencies. Their personalities clash and are tested when street-smart Tayls introduces by-the-book Cate to her unconventional policy of having sex when a patient dies.
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One Person Protest
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Christopher Amos
Produced by: Christopher Amos | Chrysaor
Country of production: Australia, UK, Russia
Original title: One Person Protest
Language: English
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2024
One Person Protest is an observational undercover documentary following 73-year-old human rights activist Peter Tatchell’s daring mission to protest at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ injustice in Russia and Chechnya.
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The Queen of My Dreams
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Fawzia Mirza
Produced by: Andria Wilson Mirza + Fawzia Mirza for Baby Daal Productions; Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault for Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Executive Producer Damon D'Oliveira
Country of production: Canada, Pakistan
Original title: The Queen of My Dreams
Language: English, Urdu
Runtime: 95'
Completed in: 2023
It’s 1999. In TORONTO, 22-year-old Pakistani, Muslim AZRA MALIK shows her girlfriend her favourite Bollywood film – ARADHANA, the 1969 hit starring Sharmila Tagore. Meanwhile, across the country in SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, Azra’s mother, MARIAM (52), conservative, watches a similarly-labelled VHS (except Mariam’s recorded over her Bollywood movie with religious teachings) as she and her husband HASSAN pack for a trip back home to Pakistan. An awkward phone call between mother-daughter makes it evident that their relationship is strained. Two nights later, Azra gets another call from her mother: Hassan’s had a heart attack on the trip and died. This film takes place over the next 48 hours, as Azra flies to Pakistan and buries her father. Azra’s journey back to Pakistan incites memories and flashbacks to her – and her mother’s – past, to two OTHER life-altering time periods.