Queer Eyes – Documentaries from the RAI collection
Fringe! is delighted to team up with The Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival throughout July this year in celebration of Pride.
The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. Throughout the next month we will be holding screenings of 3 key documentaries which welcome us into the lives of different queer communities around the world, followed by a public Q&A hosted to explore some of these central questions of gender, identity and sexuality through the lens of different cultures.
This is my Face (dir. Angélica Cabezas Pino, 2018, 57 mins, Spanish with English subtitles)
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living with the virus open up about the illness that changed their life trajectories. It follows a creative process whereby they produce photographic portraits that represent their (often painful) memories and feelings, a process which helps them challenge years of silence, shame, and misrepresentation. A lesson in the power of collaborative storytelling.
Watch the film for free HERE from Thursday 2nd July to Thursday 9th July.
And sign up below for access to the FREE live YouTube Q&A on Wednesday 8th July, 8pm, featuring guest speakers Angélica Cabezas Pino (director), Will from PrEPster, a London-based HIV prevention organisation and Roberto Tovar from Número de Serie, an organisation that promotes the use art and design to build new bridges of communication around HIV activism.
This Event is part of Film FeelsConnected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk