Category: Arts/Politics

Let’s Celebrate DIY Movies at the Cinema Museum!

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Hello Friends! Please join me at London’s Cinema Museum on 2 March 2023 for an amazing reunion of filmmakers and festival organizers. Look how far we’ve come! Since the first Wotever DIY Film Festival (my first one was 2013) so many brilliant festivals began, many of them connected somehow to the Wotever DIY Film Festival. My fondest wish is that we can all have some time together, and no one will have to be running a festival, we will all just be hanging out.

Here are the details:

2 March 2023  18:00 – 2200  (plenty of time to socialize!)
Cinema Museum The Master’s House, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH

Photos with Kyla Harris, Tara Brown, Theresa Heath, Charlie Little and Helen Wright at BFI Southwark at the “Busting The Bias Opening Night: Is There Anybody Out There? An Illustrated Talk + ECLECTIC: Shorts Programme, an evening celebrating disability visibility and filmmaking. 3 March 2023. A group photo with 4 people, indoors at an event smiling a the camera, from left to right: Theresa Heath, Tara Brown, Charlie Little and Helen Wright.

Welcome 2022 or whatever

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Hello Fans!
Well, my new year started with a a limp literally and stay-at-home/curfew.  I’m working on a new movie (rather re-working an old one) and have big plans for more.  I just need the time and attention.  LOL

Did you know I have a show on Philadelphia Community Access Television?   I try to show a mix of my work and international queer shorts.  Here is a link to watch a sneak preview of February’s show.  I’m happy to say there will be more puppetry in 2022!  I see my video work and community access show as a way of defying what is usually offered to viewers through mainstream streaming services.  I also love that is actually broadcast like I watched growing up.

Watch live TV here!

Update on autumn and screenings through the end of the year.

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Hello! It’s been a minute since I’ve updated this, and there is so much to say!

We won an award!  YaliniDream’s “I Am/YaliniDream” won an Honorable Mention for International Short Film at the Toronto Tamil International Film Festival.

Here is a photo me, out to brunch with my entourage after the QFlix Philly local film showcase.

“My Aunt Mame” was included in a “Best of Bechdel” film showcase at the She Burns Bright Festival in Akron, Ohio and also was shown at a Queers In Shorts event in Cambridge, UK.  I am so proud of that little movie.  I think it successfully shows the reality of queer/eldercare – being alone as an elder queer/being the child who does the eldercare/ worry from parents that queer children will have hard lives.

Upcoming screenings!

10 November 2021 showing at Everyman Leeds, Albion Street  “Have You Ever Thought Why,” my 2021 meditation on how my gender is perceived differently as i age, was selected to be shown at the prestigious Leeds International Film Festival. It was an honor to be selected and a firm reminder that I do need to be more organized, because i almost didn’t get it together in time.

20 November 2021 #DaughterFail will be shown in Berlin! WIPE Amateur Film Festival, to be held at FLUTGRABEN e. V., am Flutgraben 3, Berlin, Germany.

November 15-29, 2021  “Have You Ever Thought Why” is included in the Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, based in Montreal, Canada. https://burntfest.com/3-4/https://burntfest.com/3-4/

“My Aunt Mame” and “My Crazy Boxers” will be showing in the Gilbert Baker Film Festival happening online here from November 24th – Sunday December 12th, 2021.  I’m very pleased that my movies were included, and i hope the festival is a huge success. Please buy tickets and watch!

 

 

So fun, right!

Screenings and programs – August/September

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It’s with happiness and humility that I can share that these festivals have selected my films:

FilmPride, available online August 16 – 31, 2021, will be the World Premiere of my new movie Have You Ever Thought Why.  It is included in the SELF program.

Prism 34 / AGLIFF :  has selected Carol for the “Avant Garde” program, which will be available online from August. 26 – Sept. 6, 2021. The Avant Garde film program description reads;  “Is it a film? Is it an art piece? Is that a penis? You never know what you find in this assortment of inventive filmmaking not bound by narrative.”

Les Mains Gauches happens the 9th to the 12th of Septembre 2021 in Marseille, France. They have selected My Crazy Boxers.

The Toronto International Tamil Film Festival will show I Dream / YaliniDream at their event happening September 11-12, 2021 in Toronto.

Women Over 50 Film Festival will show #DaughterFail in their online festival happening 25-26 September, 2021.

Burnt Art Video and Experimental Film Fest will include #DaughterFail in their festival in Autumn, 2021.

 

 

aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival

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Isn’t it hilarious that my parody of Carol will be screening at the prestigious aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival this year?!  Did you know that Austin is where it all started — I entered the My Gay Movie competition in 2004 and won the prize for the weirdest movie.  And it’s only gotten weirder since then.  Here’s the lineup:

A BRONX STORY BELL SOTO
Carol Krissy Mahan
COVID SUMMER Todd Verow
Fluid Bound Rob Fatal
Hajun Blooms Ji Yoon Kim
ISHTAR Mia Georgis
Lilies Joni Renee Whitworth
Pote de baise (Fuck Buddy) Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Sanctity of Love, The Alí Meyer
Show For Ghosts James Medley, Em Haverty

November- December 2020

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Some screenings to end this horrible year in an encouraging way:

I Am/YaliniDream is an Official Selection and Award Finalist for the Rameshwaram International Film Festival in Ramanthapuram, Tamil Nadu, India this November.

My Crazy Boxers will be shown at the Montreal Feminist Film Festival | Festival de films féministes de Montréal, Quebec, to be held December 2- 12, 2020.

#DaughterFail won the award to Jury’s Choice at the New Age Cinema and Scripts festival in Mumbai, India!  This is the first time I’ve won and award, so I am very happy about it.

MAI Journal – MAI Feminism: Issue 6: COVID-19 Crisis-Connection-Culture

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I’m surprised to say that something i wrote (with support from Dr. Eva Boodman and Dr. Paula Ioanide, a founding collective member Abolition: A Journal Of Insurgent Politics) was published in  MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE
A non-hierarchical journal open to multivalent feminist expression, research & critique of visual culture.

“In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, inspired by The Movement 4 Black Lives, Mahan shares criticism of American cinema and proposes radical changes to the current film industry.”

 

What Could Abolitionist Feminist Cinema Be?

FilmPride on Latest TV Brighton

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Poster for CarolMy parody of the aclaimed film CAROL  will be shown on Wednesday 5th 9.30pm (BST) in the LOVE program. Then repeated on the same day and time w/c 10th August.

FilmPride Brigton be screening a selection of the films in a series of television shows from 3rd to 16th August, on Latest TV Brighton, Freeview 7 & Virgin Media 159, and on 13 local television channels throughout the UK.

Latest TV is available in Brighton and surroundings on Freeview 7 & Virgin Media 159. (They stream some of their shows online, but FilmPride will not be streamed)

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