28th TEDDY AWARD Ceremony – Ticket presale has begun
The 28. TEDDY AWARD will be given away during the 64. Berlin International Film Festival on Friday, 14th of February 2014. The location of the festive awarding in 2014 will be the Komische Oper Berlin. Besides of the award winners of the evening, a high class artistic stage programme will await the audience. Among many others the baritone singer Günther Papendell, the actress Dagmar Manzel and the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin will perform on the TEDDY stage. A musical homage will be dedicated to the pop icon Dusty Springfield. Valeska Gert, exceptional person, dancer, cabaret artist and actress will accompany us digitally through the evening. And last but not least the TEDDY bows to Russians most famous and important queer film icon: Sergej M. Eisenstein.
FRIDAY FEB. 14, 2014
21:00 TEDDY AWARD Ceremony, Komische Oper Berlin
23:00 TEDDY AFTER SHOW LOUNGE
23:45 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Premiere DAVID PEREIRA & JACK WOODHEAD mit “WHIPSTICK”
23:00 TEDDY AWARD Closing Party / SchwuZ
Friday Feb. 07, 2014
TEDDY GRAND OPENING NIGHT / SchwuZ
Friday Feb. 14, 2014
21:00 TEDDY AWARD CEREMONY, Komische Oper Berlin
23:00 TEDDY AFTER SHOW LOUNGE
23:45 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Premiere DAVID PEREIRA & JACK WOODHEAD mit “WHIPSTICK”
23:00 TEDDY AWARD Closing Party / SchwuZ
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Film Submissions for the 28th TEDDY AWARD
Application deadline:
Oktober 31th, 2013 for feature films / November 15th, 2013 for shorts
MARIO MONTEZ 1935 – 2013
Mario Montez, Warhol Superstar dies at 78
Asked to name his favorite superstar, Jack Smith singled out the appealing madcap known as Mario Montez, explaining that “he [sic] immediately enlists the sympathy of the audience.”
Mario — who was born Rene Rivera in Puerto Rico in 1935 and died of a stroke last week at his Florida home — was an unclassifiable gender blur and underground luminary of the first order.