[Reader-list] Call for films: Deadline extended to end-Jan for Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2013

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

*BANGALORE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 2013*

*Call for Submissions*

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Films on themes related to *

*Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex *

*(LGBT or Queer) communities*



*The Bangalore Queer Film Festival is open for submissions for 2013!*

 We invite you to send us your short and full-length features, short and
long documentaries, animation and experimental films. Please send us your
entries and pass this call on to friends, lovers and colleagues who might
want to send in theirs.

BQFF 2012 brought us a whole bunch of exciting packages: Indonesian films
curated by John Badalu, director of the Q! Film Festival (Jakarta),
including the thrilling transgender superhero story of *Madame X*; quirky
Australian films curated by filmmaker Anna Helme; the super hit queer Tamil
horror *Kanchana*; a retrospective of the moving films of Lebanese artist
and filmmaker Akram Zataari; a package curated by Shai Heredia, director of
Experimenta (Bangalore); a collection of ground-breaking and diverse films
from India and South Asia; and much more (and some of these films went on
to festivals at Sweden and Jakarta as part of a BQFF package).

We hope to be able to bring the same kind of film-viewing experience to our
audiences this coming year as well.

*Organisers*

BQFF 2013 is organised by Good As You (GAY), SWABHAVA Trust and We’re Here
and Queer (WHAQ!) and Pirat Dykes. All groups are non-funded and operate
entirely on donations. BQFF 2012 was organised largely with the support of
donations from the LGBT community.

*Festival** details*

The Bangalore Queer Film Festival will be hosted in the last week of
February, 2013. The venue will be the Alliance Française de Bangalore,
Vasanthnagar.

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Submission details*

BQFF uses only DVD or VCD formats for final screening. Please send in your
disk (for preview) to the address listed below.

 Filmmakers will be notified about selected films and further requests
regarding subtitling or better quality disks may be made at the time. All
films will be required to have English subtitles for final screening.

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BQFF 2013 is a FREE event and no charges are levied on submissions.
Additionally, only films that do not carry a screening charge will be
accepted.*

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*Contact details*

Please post your screener disks to:

SWABHAVA

4th Floor, M. S. Plaza,

No. 1, 13th “A” Cross, 4th Main,

Sampangiramnagar, Bangalore – 560 027

Karnataka, India

Phone: +91-80-2223 0959

Please mark your submissions: *“BQFF 2013”*

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*The last date for entries for BQFF 2013 is 30th January 2012.***

*For enquiries: *Please contact us by email on *blrqueerfilmfest at gmail.com.*