Wieland Speck Articles
Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Q&A with Festival Director Giovanni Minerba

Giovanni Minerba (above), director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of Turin's annual gay & lesbian film event, which will take place April 23-30. In addition to competition and out-of-competition screenings, the festival will feature homages, retrospectives, and assorted sidebars, including a tribute to Spanish director Ventura Pons, best known internationally for [...]
Berlin 2006: Teddy Award Retrospective

Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival: "To show a film from Iran about a transsexual, as we did three years ago, was a sensation. We had to take enormous precautionary measures, because this continues to be a highly political issue. "But it's by no means just the Islamic countries. In our neighbouring Poland a man was recently elected president [...]