Teddy Award 2005
FILM GALLERY (Page 3)
SISSY BOY SLAP PARTY A six-minute study of everything that can go wrong when Louis Negin and his Chippewa Sissy Boys try to graft the Three Stooges onto Kenneth Anger’s lilac bush. Originally conceived as a four-minute short accompanied by the world’s saddest music...
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THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN Known as “the Greta Garbo of gay porn cinema”, legendary Californian photographer, filmmaker and self-made man Peter Berlin is regarded by his fans as a male sex icon. He achieved fame – and notoriety – in the early 1970s when he made two wild 16mm films – NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER and THAT BOY. Almost overnight, Berlin had conquered both the hearts and fantasies of gay men all over the world...
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THE INTERVENTION All Steve’s friends know about his big problem and provide him with emotional support when it comes to learning the truth about Bill Parcels, the New York Giant’s coach. They hope that this will help him to come out...
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TRANSIENT Daniel and John meet on a trip to southeast Asia. They fall in love and spend a wonderful time together. They go back to their normal lives in Australia – and try to preserve their holiday romance...
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ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION When your lover is considered your enemy, your relationship may have more at stake than the average affair. Selim and Ezra are lovers caught in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Selim is Palestinian and Ezra is Israeli.Samira and Edit met at a demonstration. They too are lovers. Samira is Palestinian, Edit is Israeli. The viewers are taken on a unique journey through the complex lives of Israeli and Palestinian gays and lesbians...
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 | SISSY BOY SLAP PARTY  | TAO SE - COLOUR BLOSSOMS As with the two previous films in his “peony pavilion” trilogy, director Yonfan once again found the inspiration for his new film from an opera by the Chinese poet and dramatist Tang Hsien-tsu. Set in Hong Kong in the present, the current film uses the story of a love affair with sado-masochistic and transsexual elements to explore themes of desire, suffering, innocence and seduction. The film’s main character is a good-looking young estate agent...
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THE DYING GAUL Jeffrey Tishop is one of Hollywood’s most influential studio managers. He lives in a sedate residence high up in the Malibu Hills. His wife, Elaine, once wrote screenplays. She and her husband have now moved up to the upper echelons of Hollywood society. Having given up writing, Elaine now tends to the running of the villa, the household staff and their two well-turned-out children. One day, a screenplay lands on Jeffrey’s desk...
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TRANSAMERICA Bree is a conservative transsexual living in one of the poorer districts of Los Angeles. She holds down two jobs and saves every penny she has in order to pay for one last operation that will make her a woman at last. Out of the blue one day she receives a phone call from New York: on the other end of the line is a young man named Toby currently being held as a juvenile offender who is apparently looking for his father...
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UN ANO SIN AMOR Pablo is a writer and is HIV positive. When he learns that he will probably die within a year he starts to write a diary. The object of the exercise is not so much to create a piece of literature as to try to define his personal status quo. Pablo wants his diary to describe, like a compass, all the different directions in which his disease and his struggle for control over his body has led him. Pablo’s task is also bound up with the desire...
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