FiveFilms4freedom

fiveFilms4freedom 2016

fiveFilms4freedom is a free, online, 10-day LGBT film festival from the British Council and the British Film Institute supported by the UN Free & Equal campaign. It launched in 2015 and was the first global, online LGBT film festival.[1] The festival runs a 24-hour campaign to ask people to watch a movie and show that love is a human right. fiveFilms4freedom was founded by Alan Gemmell and its co-Directors are Alan Gemmell, Briony Hanson, British Council Director of Film and Tricia Tuttle, Deputy Head of Festivals at the BFI.[2][3][4]

fiveFilms4freedom 2015

FiveFilms4freedom 2015

fiveFilms4freedom launched in 2015 and ran from 19–27 March. The festival screened five short films by American, British, Canadian and Danish Directors in 135 countries.[5] A 24-hour social media campaign on Wednesday 25 March asked people to watch one of the festival films and show that love is a human right.[2][6] The festival achieved a total social media reach of 75m.[7][8]

2015 Films

An Afternoon (En Eftermiddag) by Danish director Søren Green.

Chance by British director Jake Graf.

Code Academy by Canadian writer and director Nisha Ganatra .

Morning Is Broken by British director Simon Anderson.

True Wheel by American director Nora Mandray.

fiveFilms4freedom 2016

fiveFilms4freedom 2016 ran from 16–27 March with a 24-hour social media campaign day on Thursday 17 March. The festival screened five short films by Directors from Brazil, Spain, the Philippines, and the UK.[9] fiveFilms4freedom 2016 achieved a total digital reach of 140.5 million people with more than 1.5 million film views.[10][1]

2016 Films

SWIRL by Philippines director Petersen Vargas.

XAVIER by Brazilian director Ricky Mastro.

BREATHE by Irish director James Doherty.

TAKE YOUR PARTNERS  by Scottish director Siri Rødnes.

THE ORCHID by Spanish director Ferran Navarro-Beltrán.

fivefilms4freedom 2016 Global List

On 17 March 2016 the British Council released a Global List of people promoting LGBT rights.[11][12][13][14]

fiveFilms4freedom 2017

fiveFilms4freedom 2017 ran from 16–27 March with a 24-hour social media campaign day on Tuesday 21 March. The festival screened five short films by directors from the UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK's 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised homosexuality.[15] The films were viewed in by over 1.7 million people in 202 countries including Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Russia, Uganda, and Yemen.[16]

2017 Films

Crush by director Rosie Westhoff.

Heavy Weight by director Jonny Ruff.

Jamie by director Christopher Manning.

Still Burning by director Nick Rowley.

Where We Are Now by director Lucie Rachel[17]

References

  1. 1 2 "BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival Announces fiveFilms4freedom - FMS".
  2. 1 2 Mark Brown. "Love is ... five gay films going global in the name of human rights". the Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Irvine diplomat joins Brad Pitt and David Beckham on star-studded GQ Magazine Most Connected Men list". Irvine Times.
  4. ↑ "FiveFilms4freedom, Stories About Love". The Huffington Post UK. 27 November 2015.
  5. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518658/FCO755_Human_Rights_Report_2015_-_WEB.pdf
  6. ↑ "fiveFilms4freedom: Love Is a Basic Human Right". The Huffington Post UK. 19 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Tim Isaac. "Gay Short Film Showcase: Chance, True Wheel & An Afternoon - Check out the #FiveFilms4Freedom shorts - Big Gay Picture Show". Big Gay Picture Show.
  8. ↑ "British Council announce first ever global LGBT film festival".
  9. ↑ "Five LGBT films unveiled for worldwide celebration of love and diversity". Gscene Gay Magazine - What's on in Gay / LGBT Brighton.
  10. ↑ http://www.casarotto.co.uk/news/2016-bfi-flare-fests-fivefilms4freedom-reaches-140-million-viewers-22862
  11. ↑ Alanna Jane Higginson. "Paul Burston featured in British Council's fiveFilms4freedom 2016 Global List". Out News Global. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24.
  12. ↑ "Sridhar Rangayan and Manish Gandhi Selected in Global List of LGBT Influencers!". gayrightsindia.
  13. ↑ "- lifestyle - Hindustan Times". Hindustan Times.
  14. ↑ Alan Gemmell (16 March 2016). "FiveFilms4Freedom - 33 People Who Should Inspire All of Us". The Huffington Post UK.
  15. ↑ Briony Hanson (17 March 2017). "Why We Need To Share LGBT Film With The World". The Huffington Post UK.
  16. ↑ "31st edition of BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival closes". British Film Institute. 11 April 2017.
  17. ↑ "Lucie Rachel: Film | Photography | Installation". lucierachel.com. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
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