ABOUT
The Cinema Feast Collection is a non commercial streaming library for marginalized LGBTQ+ people of colour. We showcase under-represented Queer Cinema of all genres, made by filmmakers from the Global South and the Diaspora. Your submissions are intended to support and to inspire a new generation of disenfranchised filmmakers.
Join a unique platform that showcases unsung stories and validates our heroes. We aim to move audiences from empathy to action on LGBTQ+ rights issues. We provide FREE subscriptions to people in need & 100% of the proceeds go to the 75 SHOTS POCKET CINEMA Mentorship Program.
MENTORSHIP
If you are from the Global South and have less than one year filmmaking experience, consider applying to 75 SHOTS POCKET CINEMA Mentorship Program. A scholarship is awarded to a person each season from one of the sixty-eight countries that criminalizes homosexuality. We encourage inquisitive, passionate, motivated and engaged individuals with positive and cooperative attitudes to apply. You will learn to transform your smartphone into a professional camera and start telling your own stories. It's FREE!
THE COLLECTION
Are you a person of colour whose work focuses on LGBTQ+ subjects or themes? Have you been showcased at festivals or broadcast? Let your films be a source of inspiration and a beacon of hope to marginalized communities around the World who do not have access. Grant us permission to host your work in our collection and join a community of people who cares about the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide.
UNDER THE RADAR
UNDER THE RADAR is a series of curated in person short film screenings celebrating under-represented New Queer Cinema from the Global South and the Diaspora. Submissions should be of interest to the queer community and demonstrate innovation and creative originality.Our goal is to create a space of solidarity for a population of artists within the local, national and international cultural scene, who face scrutiny, persecution or even criminalization on a daily basis by reclaiming public spaces.
Queer Facts
Key Facts
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jurisdictions criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. The majority of these jurisdictions explicitly criminalise sex between men via ‘sodomy’, ‘buggery’ and ‘unnatural offences’ laws. Almost half of them are Commonwealth jurisdictions.
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jurisdictions criminalise private, consensual sexual activity between women using laws against ‘lesbianism’, ‘sexual relations with a person of the same sex’ and ‘gross indecency’. Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest.
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jurisdictions in which the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. At least 6 of these implement the death penalty – Iran, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen – and the death penalty is a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE.
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jurisdictions criminalise the gender identity and/or expression of transgender people, using so-called ‘cross-dressing’, ‘impersonation’ and ‘disguise’ laws. In many more countries transgender people are targeted by a range of laws that criminalise same-sex activity and vagrancy, hooliganism and public order offences.