Film Hub Scotland
LGBT50 programming suggestions
The BFI is marking 50 years since a major landmark in human rights – the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales – with a number of screenings and events at BFI Southbank, on BFI Player and in cinemas across the UK.
In this document you’ll find suggestions for films that explore LGBT+ culture. These are just ideas, feel free to include in your Pitch Pot proposal any films that explore the following:
· cinematic representations of LGBT+ culture on screen
· the experiences of people of LGBT+ communities in Britain
· the work of LGBT+ filmmakers, actors and creatives
Current LGBT+ UK releases
God’s Own Country
UK release date 1 September, available to book now on DCP via Picturehouse
Winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017. Captivating and broodingly beautiful,God's Own Countryis the debut feature from writer/director Francis Lee. Bracingly open hearted, this is a thrillingly romantic story set in the heart of rural Yorkshire. Both poignant and moving, this finely crafted British film features a host of standout performances, marking it out as an absolute must see.
God’s Own Country is being supported by the BFI FAN’s New Release Strategy. For more information please visit Film Hub Scotland’s website.
Britain on Film: LGBT Britain
Available to book now on DCP, Blu-ray and DVD via ICO
Britain’s LGBT history is the inspiring subject of the ICO’s fourth Britain on Film on Tour programme. With short films spanning 1909 to 1994, this feature-length package documents a century in which homosexuality went from crime to Pride, via decades of profoundly courageous activism, and the shifting attitudes to LGBT people and their rights across the board throughout a time of explosive social change.
Queerama
Available to book now via
Premiered at the opening of Sheffield Doc/Fest, Queerama is the anticipated new film from award-winning documentary maker Daisy Asquith, with an exceptional soundtrack from John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love Affair. Created from the treasure trove of the BFI archive, the story traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride.
Please note that although Queerama will screen on BBC4 on 31 July, cinema bookings are still being taken. You can watch a screener of Queerama on Film Hub Wales’ online Previews section.
Useful links
Peccadillo Pictures, the UK’s main distributor of LGBT+ films
https://www.peccapics.com
Park Circus LGBT+ film section
http://www.parkcircus.com/films/collections/471_lesbian_gay_interest
Filmbankmedia LGBT+ film section
http://www.filmbankmedia.com/films/archive/?g=33-lgbt&s=relevance
Cinema For All LGBT+ film section
http://cinemaforall.org.uk/booking-scheme/#?start=0&gen=lgbt&format=blu,dvd
BFI article: ‘The 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time’
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time
BFI Southbank season: Gross Indecency
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=grossindecency&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
Picturehouse season: Criminal Acts – A Charged Past
https://picturehouseblog.co.uk/2017/05/08/criminal-acts-a-charged-past/
Film Society Lincoln Center season: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/queer-cinema-before-stonewall/#films
Gross Indecency titles available
BFI Southbank’s season Gross Indecency specifically explores the pioneering and sometimes problematic depictions of LGBT life in British film and TV in the years immediately before and after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
TV titles
TV titles are available to screen through the BFI. For more information please email AND with the titles you would like to book.
Play of the Week: South (1959-11-24)
On Trial: Oscar Wilde (1960-08-05)
Compass: The Importance of Being Oscar (02.12.1960)
The Wednesday Play: Horror of Darkness (1965-03-10)
This Week: Homosexuals (1964-10-22)
This Week: Lesbians (1965-01-07)
Man Alive: Consenting Adults 1. The Men (1967-06-07)
Man Alive: Consenting Adults 2. The Women (1967-06-14
What's a Girl Like You... (1969-12-17)
Edward II (1970-08-06) BBC 125
The Naked Civil Servant (1975-12-17)
& World in Action: Quentin Crisp (1970-07-06)
Film titles
FILM TITLE / PRINT SOURCE / RIGHTS HOLDERSerious Charge (1959 Terence Young) / BFI Archive 35mm / Park Circus
The World Ten Times Over (1963 Wolf Rilla) / Park Circus 35mm / TBC
The Leather Boys (1964 Sidney J. Furie) / Confidential / Indemnity
Dream A40 (1965 Lloyd Reckord) 16 / BFI Archive ProRes / BFI Distribution
Come Dancing (1970 Bill Douglas) / London Film School ProRes / London Film School
The Killing of Sister George (1968 Robert Aldrich) / BFI Archive 35mm / Disney USA
Staircase (1969 Stanley Donen, US-Fr-UK) / BFI Archive 35mm print
(quite worn) / Park Circus
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969 Ted Kotcheff) / Confidential / Park Circus
+ Black Cap Drag (1969 Dick Benner) / BFI Archive ProRes / Simon McCallum, BFI
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971 John Schlesinger) / Park Circus DCP / Park Circus
Girl Stroke Boy (1971 Bob Kellett) / TBC / Park Circus
I Want What I Want (1972 John Dexter, US-UK) / BFI Distribution 16mm / TBC
Nighthawks (1978 Ron Peck/Paul Hallam) / BFI Distribution Digibeta / BFI
Victim (1961 Basil Dearden) / Park Circus DCP / Park Circus
Prick Up Your Ears (1987 Stephen Frears) / Park Circus DCP / Park Circus
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FHS LGBT50 Programming Suggestions
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