Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Auraeus Solito’s BOY

Filipino filmmaker Auraeus Solito, best known for his 2006 Teddy Award-winning The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, will be at the Torino GLBT Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, as a member of the international jury and to present the world premiere of his new feature, Boy, recently banned in Singapore.
In Boy, a young poet sells his comic books to afford a one-night stand with a macho rent-boy on New Year’s Eve. However, their relationship will not end that night as the boy in question will learn to accept his sexuality.
Tuli (2005) and Philippine Science (2007); the latter follows eight students at the elite [...]

by Andre Soares | April 7, 2009   
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Berlin 2009: Joe Dallesandro to Receive Honorary Teddy Award

Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s muse in films such as Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Heat (1972), and whose crotch adorned the Rolling Stones‘ album "Sticky Fingers," will be the recipient of the 2009 honorary Teddy Award, given to those who have contributed to gay/lesbian/etc. cinema, at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 5-15.
Two films featuring Dallesandro, who’s now 60 years old, will be screened at the 2009 Berlinale: Little Joe, Nicole Haeusser’s new documentary on the actor, and Catherine Breillat’s Tapage Nocturne (1979), winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama Audience Award.
In addition to the Warhol Factory films, which also include titles such as the revisionist Western Lonesome Cowboys (1968), The Loves [...]

by Andre Soares | January 23, 2009   
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