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Please note: this is an event for university students and faculty and the Fresh Takes scheme only. If you purchase a ticket and are not affiliated with Queen Mary University, you may be turned away at the event!

The film will be ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY.

The screening will be followed by a panel. We are delighted to have Clare Binns and Julia Trawinska, with Leah Byrne hosting this panel.

Clare Binns is frequently named as one of the most influential women in the UK film industry. Clare has worked in the film industry for over 30 years, and is the Managing Director of Picturehouse Cinemas. She oversees the 27 cinemas in the group, as well as Picturehouse Entertainment, the group's distribution branch.

Julia Trawinska is the acquisitions manager For Picturehouse Entertainment. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, Julia recently worked at US production and distribution firm Fifth Season; and previously worked with Picturehouse Entertainment on acquisitions including at Cannes 2022.

Our host Leah Byrne is the Audience Development Manager at Picturehouse.

We will be talking about the following, using the film ORLANDO, MY PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY as a case study where relevant:

1. The role festivals play in film distribution and exhibition

2. An overview on some of the key film festivals internationally

3. How important film festivals are to Picturehouse for both acquisitions (buying films for distribution) and for programming for our cinemas

About the film: Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world. Through the authentic voices of other young bodies undergoing metamorphosis, Preciado retraces the stages of his personal transformation through a poetic journey in which life, writing, theory and image merge freely in the search for truth. Every Orlando, he says, is a transgender person who is risking his, her or their life on a daily basis as they find themselves forced to confront government laws, history and psychiatry, as well as traditional notions of the family and the power of multinational pharmaceutical companies.

  • Director :
  • Paul B. Preciado
  • Release Date :
  • 05 Jul 2024
  • Certificate :
  • 12A
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