Beijing Queer Film Festival

Beijing Queer Film Festival (BJQFF)
LocationVarious locations in Beijing, China
Founded2001 (by Cui Zi'en)
DirectorsJenny Man Wu (co-director)
Hosted byBeijing Queer Film Festival Committee
Festival dateSeptember each year
LanguageInternational
WebsiteOfficial website
(Chinese & English)

Beijing Queer Film Festival (BJQFF),[1] (Chinese: 北京酷儿影展), is an LGBT film festival, held annually in Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China. It was the first LGBT film festival to be established in mainland China, founded in 2001 by the Chinese author and LGBT film director Cui Zi'en, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.[2]

Other Chinese-language LGBT film festivals in the region, which also feature international LGBT films with Chinese subtitles, include CINEMQ, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival and Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Like the Beijing Queer Film Festival, Shanghai Queer Film Festival, is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit event, and aims to help facilitate and promote the work of filmmakers from Chinese and other Asian backgrounds.[3]

Beijing has a large LGBT community.[4] The Festival originated from Peking University, and is considered to be "the only community-based non-governmental film festival in China with a special focus on gender and sexuality".[5]

In 2011, Chinese filmmaker Yang Yang made a documentary entitled Our Story: The Beijing Queer Film Festival’s 10 Years of “Guerrilla Warfare” (我們的故事：北京酷兒影展十年游擊戰), reporting on the struggles of the Festival and the team behind it, and examining the role of the Chinese government's media censorship.[5]

  1. ^ Hongwei Bao (16 February 2017). "Queer as Catachresis: The Beijing Queer Film Festival in Cultural Translation". Chinese Film Festivals. Springer. pp. 79–100. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55016-3_5. ISBN 978-1-137-55480-2.
  2. ^ Tin Tran (18 June 2009). "Gays In China: Beijing Queer Film Festival Goes Off Without A Hitch". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. ^ Michael Rinaldi (16 February 2017). "New Shanghai Queer Film Festival to launch this September". Time Out Shanghai. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  4. ^ Dean Hamer (7 January 2015). "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Beijing Queer Film Festival". Filmmaker magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Our Story: The Beijing Queer Film Festival's 10 Years of "Guerrilla Warfare"". Pixnet. August 12, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2017.