Queer Screen – based in Sydney, Australia is the country’s leading LGBTIQ+ screen cultural 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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Projects
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From All Sides
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bina Bhattacharya
Produced by: Bina Bhattacharya and Alexander McGhee - Gemme de la Femme Pictures Pty Ltd Bina Bhattacharya and Alexander McGhee - Gemme de la Femme Pictures Pty Ltd
Country of production: Australia
Original title: From All Sides
Genre: Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Drama, LGBTQ+
Language: English
Runtime: 118'
A multiracial bisexual married couple and their teenage children find themselves beset from all sides as they navigate work, school, sex, friendships, romances and their colourful neighbours in the outer suburbs of Sydney.
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Arms Of A Man
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Produced by: Neeraj Churi | Lotus Visual Productions, UK
Country of production: India, UK, France
Original title: Sabar Bonda
Genre: Drama, Romance
Language: Marathi with English Subtitles
Runtime: 120'
Completed in: 2024
A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, he must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
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Strange Creatures
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Henry Boffin
Produced by: Rachel Forbes & Riley Nottingham | Strange Creatures Pty Ltd, Humdrum Comedy Pty Ltd
Country of production: Australia
Original title: Strange Creatures
Genre: Black comedy, Road Movie
Language: English
Runtime: 87'
Completed in: 2024
Two estranged brothers are forced back into each others’ lives when they’re tasked with scattering the ashes of their recently deceased mother in the country town where she grew up.
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Under the Influencer
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bryn Woznicki (Director); Lauren Neal (Technical Director)
Produced by: Jill Bennett, Katie Hall | Lion & Lamb Studio, Team Stillwell, Fair Play Films
Country of production: USA
Original title: Under the Influencer
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Language: English
Runtime: 103'
Completed in: 2024
When a struggling digital artist has her work appropriated by a popular art curator, will she remain a victim, or become the perpetrator of an even more villainous crime?
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Heart of the Man
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: David Cook
Produced by: Blake Northfield | Bronte Pictures
Country of production: Australia
Original title: Heart of the Man
Genre: Coming-of-Age, Drama
Language: English
Runtime: 85'
Completed in: 2024
A young boxing prodigy coming to terms with his sexuality must battle between fulfilling his father’s dream and becoming his own man.