This section contains links to openly accessible resources on different aspects of queer film, queer film festival organisation and queer film festival studies. The links are organised under the following themes:
- Making queer film festivals inclusive
- Queer film festival networking
- Guides how to set up a queer film festival
- Queer film festival research
Making queer film events inclusive
This section links to resources and work relating to various aspects of accessibility with regard to queer film events. The video interviews in Queer Resource, too, address accessibility-related questions.
Access Is Love
A comprehensive guide to the first steps you can take make your event inclusive (Disability and Intersectionality Summit).
Amelia Cavallo – The Radical Potential of Integrated Audio Description
Artist presentation by Amelia Cavallo from Quiplash (55 min video). At 43.37, Amelia talks in detail about self audio description.
Commissioned by Disability Arts Online as part of the Artist Presentations series.
Chloe Phillips explores Audio-Description as a creative tool
Chloe Phillips is an artist who has researched integrated audio description. Interview with Disability Arts Online.
Leanne Dawson – Culture in Crisis: a Guide to Access, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Festivals, Arts, and Culture
In this special theme issue of the open access journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture on ‘Crisis-Connection-Culture: Alternative Responses to Covid-19’, Leanne Dawson identifies a range of practical measures to make film festivals and other arts and cultural events more accessible for marginalised and disadvantaged groups, working-class people, people living in poverty, people with disabilities, parents and careers.
Navigating Race and a Lack of Imagination and Vision
In this special theme issue of the open access journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture on ‘Crisis-Connection-Culture: Alternative Responses to Covid-19’, Nosheen Khwaja, co-founder of GLITCH, QTIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Colour) film festival discusses issues of accessibility, race and representation in queer film festivals and other queer activist events.
Quiplash – Queer Crip Access Arts
Quiplash make space for queer crips including queer crip performance and events. Quiplash advised on the accessibility of our videos and our website.
SQIFF’s Deaf and Disabled Accessibility Guide
A detailed guide on accessibility for organisers of film events produced by the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF).
Queer film festival networking
A key theme in the video interviews in Queer Resource is the importance of making connections and working together with other queer film festivals. Queer Film Network is a great example of one such network. Here are links to other networks of queer film festivals and those working in queer film more broadly.
Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance
The Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance is a collective of queer film festivals in the Asia-Pacific region. The Alliance seeks to champion queer film makers in the region and promotes the global visibility of Asia Pacific queer cinema.
Jenni Olson’s LGBT Film Resources
This site helpfully provides a wide range of valuable resources for LGBT filmmakers.
QueerScope – Independent German Queer Film Festivals
QueerScope is a collaboration between 19 independent queer film festivals in Germany. It also includes 1 festival in Switzerland. While independent, these festivals co-operate around practical issues such as the production of publicity materials and film sub-titles.
Queer Screens Network
Queer Screens Network – a platform for people working on LGBTQI+ issues and the screen.
Guides on how to set up a film festival
This section lists links to practical guides that help to organise queer film events and festivals.
Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival, Volume 2.
This extensive guide provides comprehensive guidance on how to organise a human rights festival.
Josh Leake – 11 Tips for Starting Your Own Indie Film Festival
Josh Leake shares top tips in how to set up an indie film festival.
Queer film festival research
This section contains links to websites that engage queer film festival research and will direct you to sources to study the fascinating phenomenon of queer film festivals and film events from various angles.
Film Festival Research Network (FFRN)
This site is was set up by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist to facilitate connections between film festival researchers as well as professionals.
The FFRN site contains a regularly updated bibliography of research on film festivals which includes a section on LGBT / Queer Film Festivals.
Queer Film Festival Studies
This contains a series of links to openly accessible academic research on queer film festivals curated by Catherine Grant of the University of Sussex and Film Studies For Free.
Film Studies For Free
This site curated by Catherine Grant, Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at Birkbeck, University of London contains a rich set of links to openly accessible articles in film and media studies.
Queer Film Culture: Queer Cinema and Film Festivals
This is the website for a major international conference on queer film festivals at the University of Hamburg in October 2014, which was organised by Skadi Loist in association with the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg/International Queer Film Festival.
Transgender Media Portal
This site contains a wealth of resources on trans film festivals and BIPOC trans filmmakers as well as a set of bibliographies on trans cinema studies, spectatorship and representation.