2011 hong kong lesbian and gay film festival

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9.1.1 LGBT / Queer Film Festivals

Messages and texts SMS were relayed by a cellphone network of trusted contacts each time an improvised venue had been secured. The following year, festival organizers circumvented this Kafkaesque situation Rabatzky ; de Guerre Instead of trying to use city-owned venues, they held all events on the property of various foreign consulates and cultural agencies.

This year's jury

Two Malaysian states are considering passing laws that could punish gay Muslims and gay rights supporters with prison sentences. Last year a gay and lesbian film festival in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, went ahead despite protests from hardline Islamist groups who threatened to attack participating cinemas.

With funding from abroad, the support of foreign cultural centres and their new web site policy, the festival organisers surmounted the death threats and carried on. So successful is the festival now that the tenth festival had more than eighty screenings last year.