What is the “Asian Lesbian Film and Video Festival” (ALFF)

The Asian Lesbian Film Festival is organized by Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan with programming support from Institute for Tongzhi Studies, City University of New York and Spectra Studio for Asian Queer Media.

As most of the films made by and/or about lesbians in Asia, especially by young lesbians and queers, in the past few years are usually shown and circulated outside Asia, primarily in Film Festivals in Europe and North America. ALFF seeks to initiate dialogue around media representations of and by lesbians/lazi/lala/tongzhi/t/po/queer persons in an inter-Asian context so that communities within Asia could share images and stories made in their own region by and about Asians in Asian societies and build a forum for the lesbian and queer communities to discuss issues including visibility, media representation, gender and sexuality, relationships among women, family and community, violence and social justice.

ALFF taps on the social accessibility of media representation and its ability to reach wide and diverse audiences and
seeks to participate in the larger cultural activist turn toward supporting and fostering inter-Asian on the ground critical perspectives and social movements. We hope to use this opportunity to expand and enrich our communities in ways that could not be done otherwise. (More...)

Presented By：
Gender/Sexuality Rights Association, Taiwan

Co-presented By：
Institute for Tongzhi Studies, City University of New York
Common Language, Beijing
Spectra Studio for Asian Queer Media, New York

Sponsored By：
The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies, National Tsing Hua University
Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University
Urban Gallery
SPOT-Taipei Film House
Fridae Empowering Gay Asia .COM
Northern Light Culture Corporation
Friends Yam .COM
GINGINS
2Girl.NET
Hello Queer RADIO
LEZ RADIO

G/SRAT
G/SRAT is historically an offshoot of the vibrant Taiwan women’s movement of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, it is also a function of deepening awareness of both the diversities and differences between and among lesbians, gays and transgender peoples, as well as the crucial political need for working out these differences, political and personal, within a group that seeks inclusiveness among the sexually minor and stigmatized. (More...)

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Email: alff2005@gsrat.net