The Quezon City
International Pink Film Festival (QCIPFF) closes the city’s Diamond Jubilee
Year Celebration with a landmark event that will provide greater recognition
for the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)
community.
The QCIPFF will be
held on October 6-11, 2015 at the Gateway Cinema 1, Araneta Center, Cubao,
Quezon City. This year’s edition features prizewinning films from the Berlin
Film Festival where Pink Festival Director Nick Deocampo was part of the 2015
film jury in the TEDDY Awards, a section dedicated for the showing of LGBT
films.
Bringing the
Berlin prizewinners to local audiences, Deocampo has programmed the TEDDY Best
Film “Nasty Baby” (USA) to be the closing film on Oct 11. Other Berlin
prizewinners include “El Hombre Nuevo/The New Man” (Uruguay/Chile/Nicaragua),
which won the Best TEDDY Documentary. Opening the festival is the hottest film
in the LGBT film circuit, “Dressed as a Girl (UK),” with the film’s producer,
Chris Amos, present at the festival to introduce the film. It will be shown
twice on Oct 6 and 9.
Included in the
program are other Berlin entries like “Kumu Hina” (USA) and the Jury Prize
winner, “Stories of Our Lives” (Kenya/South Africa). Last year’s edition featured Cannes
prizewinners like the controversial Palme d’Or winner, the lesbian film “Blue
is the Warmest Color” (France). Local films include “Esprit de Corps,”
“Esoterika Maynila,” “I Love You, Thank You,” “Pinoy Transking,” selected short
films like “Julie” from Cebu, and the Fil-Am film, “Shunned.”
With the
resounding success of last year’s festival, the holding of QCIPFF2 will be made
meaningful this year with the passage of the historic “Gender Fair Ordinance.”
It is a cause for great celebration as this historic social emancipation
bill—the first in Asia—signifies Quezon City’s progressive outlook towards the
future under the administration of Mayor Herbert Bautista.
The pioneering law makes Quezon City the first
government agency in the Asian region to create a government-supported LGBT
Council. With such a progressive agenda to promote, the festival serves as a
fitting platform that will seek to galvanize Quezon City’s stature not only in
the Philippines but in Asia as the leading model city for gender emancipation.
The QCIPFF is
organized by the Quezon City Pride Council for the Quezon City Government and
the Diamond Jubilee Committee.
The opening local film for Quezon City International Pink Film Festival 2015 is Esprit De Corps. You may check the movie review here
PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE OPENING NIGHT OF QUEZON CITY INTERNATIONAL PINK FILM FESTIVAL 2015
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