4. Queer Lion Award: foreword and special events calendar

Informations, dates and places about Queer Lion’s Closing Party, award ceremony and special screenings. In this section, all you need to know about Queer Lion 2010 collateral events

FOREWORD

67. Venice Film Festival looks, as usual, as a showcase full of interesting proposals and suggestions both for queer cinema and queer culture; starting with the many movies mentioned in the Queer Lion magazine and continuing, for example, with Paul Morrissey, director of Andy Warhol’s factory, that in the Orizzonti sidebar will present News from Nowhere, starring warholian superstar Viva. Warhol’s extraordinary, vivid creativity can be seen, again in Orizzonti, in Magic for Beginners by Jesse McLean, a mash up of the most diverse materials and warholian quotations on television.
Pasolini, his themes and aesthetics can be found in two Italian movies from the Venice Days sidebar: Et in terra pax, competing for the Queer Lion award, and the extraordinary new movie from Antonio Capuano, L’amore buio; and Pasolini himself can be seen, talking about cinema with Visconti and Buñuel, in Dai nostri inviati – La Rai racconta la Mostra del Cinema 1954-1967, a documentary co-directed by Giuseppe Giannotti and Enrico Salvatori.
Jean Gabriel Périot will unveil, in the Horizons sidebar, his new video Les Barbares; Périot is not new to the Lido scene, his short movie “Eût-elle été criminelle…” was presented here at the 2006 Venice Gays. And Peter Marcias with his documentary Liliana Cavani, una donna nel cinema, offers a portrait of a director who deeply influenced the queer world and culture with her movies, from “The Night Porter” to “Beyond Good and Evil”, from “La pelle” to “The Berlin Affair”. Last but not least, Out of Competition, Showtime, from openly gay Hong Konger director Stanley Kwan.
Enjoy good cinema, and fingers crossed for all the directors competing for Queer Lion: 2009 edition saw directors Tom Ford (“A Single Man”) and Ang Lee (career achievement) crowned, who will be honored with the award this year?

Daniel N. Casagrande
Queer Lion Award Director

EVENTS

10 SETTEMBRE 2010
18:00 Queer Lion Award Ceremony
The ceremony will be held at Villa degli Autori, headquarter of Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days (Lungomare Marconi 56/B).

10 SETTEMBRE 2010
23:00 Queer Lion Award Closing Party
The party will take place at Club 22 disco (Lungomare Marconi 22, opposite hotel Des Bains).