TEDDY AWARD JURY 2016
As every year, we collected interesting film-people from all over the world who are involved in the LGBT-Community, for the TEDDY Jury. Here we want to introduce them to you…
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Kovacs
Her dark voice and her passion are what makes her music different from all the rest. Her radical emotionalism and the abyss-deep soul that she brings to her songs seem to turn her innermost self inside out. She is 24 years old, but you perceive that she has already lived a whole life: KOVACS! Continue reading Kovacs
30 years – 30 interviews
In 2016 the TEDDY AWARD celebrates its 30th birthday and therefore we did interviews with the previous Teddy winners. They talk about the conditions in which queer people lived at the time their movie won the award, about the impact the TEDDY AWARD had on their lives as well as on their art and how winning the award changed the perspective on LGBTIQ-people in their country.
Tilda Swinton
Special Teddy Award Winner 1988 and 2008
James Franco
Teddy Award Winner 2009 for The Feast of Stephen
Daniel Ribeiro from Brazil
Teddy Award Winner 2014 for The Way He Looks
Jim Chuchu from Kenya
Teddy Award Winner 2015 for The Stories of Our Lives
Barbara Hammer from the USA
Teddy Award Winner 2009 for A Horse Is Not A Metaphor
and 2011 for Maya Deren’s Sink
Ayat Najafi from Iran
Teddy Award Winner 2008 for Football Under Cover
Greta Schiller from the USA
Teddy Award Winner 1984 for Before Stonewall
the feminist guide to tv series
It´s nothing new, that american tv-series are addictive for million people worldwide and are talked about in feature sections of newspapers all the time. It´s also no novelty that tv-series are considered as the new world literature. There are analytic books written about series like „Breaking Bad“ or „The Wire“, and moreover there are seminars about them, for example at elite university Harvard.
A new art form was invented: complex stories told over a larger amount of time, characters who have the possibility to develop – or completely change. But also, there has been another change in the comos of series: the women characters. Continue reading the feminist guide to tv series
Season´s Greetings
The TEDDY-Team wish you all a merry Christmas, chocolate cookies, too much hot wine punch, a beautiful Christmas tree, a lot of gifts and fun with the lovely relatives!
