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networking sessions enable filmmakers to spread their material more widely and to connect better to audiences. As a not-for-profit, community-based festival, Shanghai Queer Film
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117:. The first festival was held from 16—24 September 2017. It is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit community event, offering 'a week of screenings, parties, workshops and discussions'. The festival is directed by founder Tingting Shi. There are two other separate and unconnected LGBT film festivals in the city,
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Festival is run by a mostly local Chinese team, and focuses primarily on Asian film, through initiatives such as an Asian Short Film Competition, and partnerships with regional groups. Festival programmer Yu Jing argues that through such
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The week-long festival is run by a team of over 20 unpaid volunteer designers, writers, curators, marketers and others. The festival features discussion groups, workshops, talks and lectures from leading academics, as well as interactive activities and parties. Events such as panel discussions and
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Chinese audiences. Shi states that "...local audiences lack a certain understanding of the real scope of our diversity, including diversity in the community, and
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some more recent concepts. Given this, what we tried to do when selecting films was to highlight new ideas and pick films that could spark dialogues instead of just striving for a perfectly balanced representation of different LGBTQ identities.'
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