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Mezipatra
Mezipatra is a Czech queer film festival screening films with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes. The name Mezipatra translates as "mezzanine" and refers to the festival's mission: creating space for meeting of people regardless of their gender or sexual identities. Each edition explores a chosen theme and hosts a variety of international guests. The accompanying events range from lectures and debates to art openings, theatre performances as well as exciting parties. It takes place annually in November in Prague and Brno with related events in Ostrava, Olomouc and other cities in Czech Republic. Throughout the year Mezipatra offers additional screenings within the Mezipatra Approved edition. Mezipatra also participates in Prague Pride festival by organizing screenings and debates with LGBT themes. History The festival was founded in Brno in 2000 as an accompanying program of the Gay Men CZ competition. The following year was already organized as a separate event – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stud Brno
STUD Brno is a Czech activist association of lesbians, gays, and their friends. Basic facts STUD was established in 1996 as an independent non-government as well as non-profit organization (civic association), the mission of which is to benefit the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender minority, and to aim for legal and factual equality of their rights with other members and groups of the society. The name of the organization is abbreviated from ″students″. The full name was originally ''STUD-lgb'' and it meant ″lesbian, gay & bisexual students".Richard Ammon''Gay Czech Republic'' globalgayz.com, April 2009. STUD gathers people of homosexual and bisexual orientation, and their heterosexual allies. STUD counted some thirty members at the beginning of 2010. STUD is an all-volunteer group, except for one paid half-time staff member. It was an active member of ''The Association of Gay and Lesbian Citizens‘ Organizations in the Czech Republic'' (SOHO) until its transform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ornithologist (film)
''The Ornithologist'' ( pt, O Ornitólogo) is a 2016 drama film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. It was released in 2016. The film stars Paul Hamy as Fernando, an ornithologist studying black storks in Portugal, who is drawn into a series of incidents paralleling the life of Saint Anthony of Padua. '' Variety'', August 12, 2016. Director João Pedro Rodrigues has described his film as a “purposefully transgressive and blasphemous reappropriation of the saint’s life.” Plot Fernando is out in nature camping on riverbank birdwatching in Portugal. He gets into his yello ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Pedro Rodrigues
João Pedro Rodrigues (born 24 August 1966) is a Portuguese film director. He is considered to be part of ''The School of Reis'' film family. Career Having studied at the School of Theatre and Cinema of Portugal, Rodrigues started his career as an assistant director and editor in several features, directed, for example, by Alberto Seixas Santos and Teresa Villaverde, among others. In 1997 Rodrigues directed his first film. '' O Fantasma (Phantom)'' (2000). Apart from the minor controversy it generated in Portugal, the film was shown in Spain, Italy, France, Brazil and the United States with modest results. '' Two Drifters'' (2005), his second feature film, has garnered relative international acclaim and was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. His features have been produced and released by the production company Rosa Filmes. Personal life He is openly gay. Filmography * 1988 - ''O Pastor'' * 1997 - ''Happy Birthday! (Parabéns!)'' * 1997 - ''Esta é a Minha Casa'' * 1998 - ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Mari Goenaga
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Garaño
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from " YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned". Behind the Name. Retrieved on 2013-09-06. The name is spelled Jón in Iceland and on the Faroe Islands. In the , it is derived from Johannes. No ...
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80 Days (film)
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80 Days or Eighty Days may refer to: * ''80 Days'' (2005 video game), a 2005 video game for Windows developed by Frogwares * ''80 Days'' (2014 video game), a 2014 video game developed by Inkle *"Eighty Days", by Marillion from their 1997 album '' This Strange Engine'' *''Eighty Days'', a series of erotic novels by Vina Jackson See also *'' Around the World in Eighty Days'', a novel by Jules Verne * Around the World in Eighty Days (other) ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' is a novel by Jules Verne. Around the World in Eighty Days may also refer to: Film * Around the World in Eighty Days (1919 film), ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919 film), a 1919 German silent adventur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McDonald (director)
Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the loosely-affiliated Toronto New Wave. McDonald has directed more than a dozen features films over the course of his three-decade-long filmmaking career. ''The Hollywood Reporter'' has called him an "iconoclastic filmmaker". Several of his films, ranging from mockumentaries to horror films, have attracted cult followings. His most notable films include '' Roadkill'' (1989), '' Highway 61'' (1991), ''Hard Core Logo'' (1996), '' Pontypool'' (2008), '' Trigger'' (2010), and '' Hellions'' (2015). ''Hard Core Logo'' has been frequently ranked amongst the greatest movies ever to come out of Canada. Early life McDonald was born in Kingston, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto, where he graduated from film school at Ryerson University. At Ryerson, he made the short films ''Merge'' (1980) and ''Let Me See...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trigger (2010 Film)
''Trigger'' is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement."How the film Trigger underwent a sex change" '' The Globe and Mail'', September 11, 2010. The film was originally planned in the late 1990s as a companion film to McDonald's '''', which would have starred [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. His first film was the short ''Lady'' (1993). Biography Sachs was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His films include '' The Delta'' (1997), '' Forty Shades of Blue'' (2005), '' Married Life'' (2007), '' Keep the Lights On'' (2012), '' Love Is Strange'' (2014), and '' Little Men'' (2016). His newest film, '' Frankie'', premiered at Cannes in 2019. His next film, '' Passages'', is set to be released in 2022. Sachs is Jewish and openly gay. He described '' Keep the Lights On'' as semi-autobiographical film. In January 2012, Sachs married artist Boris Torres in New York city, a few days before their twins were born. Sachs and Torres co-parent Co-parenting is an enterprise undertaken by parents who together take on the socialization, care, and upbringing of children for whom they share equal responsibility. The co-parent relationship differs from an intimate relationship between adults ... the children with documentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep The Lights On
''Keep the Lights On'' is a 2012 American drama film written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias and directed by Sachs. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and was released on September 7, 2012 by Music Box Films."Keep the Lights On: Sundance Film Review" '' The Hollywood Reporter'', January 21, 2012. The film stars Thure Lindhardt as Erik, a Danish filmmaker living in New York City to wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
