Q! Film Festival
q film festival held annually city jakarta indonesia asia largest lgbt film festival term number film shown established continued overtook jakarta international film festival number international one number film shown venue overall length festival showing film range venue across jakarta also firstever lgbt film festival organised predominantly muslim country march q film festival official twitter feed reproduced message sent previous day founder john badalu stating festival would longer continue present time long fight struggle keep going year year might come back one day time right festival lasted nine day year apart film screening programme included discussion film literature photo exhibition launch new book variety topic dealing gender sexuality event took place across wide range venue gallery cultural mission since became official part teddy award berlin film festival germany entry free festival relied entirely private donation received government financial support commercial sponsorship q film festival established qmunity organisation set freelance journalist people involved art community wanted improve accessibility performing art film appreciation widest public audience possible began group ethnic chinese indonesian interest contemporary chinese cinema whose aim stage festival chinese film first director john badalu freelancer art management journalism said many organiser lgbt background decided instead screen wider selection high quality film across asia rest world drew public attention issue sexuality first festival created entirely private collection organiser first festival known q film screening qfs held september day screening lgbt film attended people intention beginning ensure free entry film event noncommercial first year organiser helped aid organisation distribute research report hiv member audience feedback audience integral part festival responding questionnaire given screening audience positive response event even suggested kind event regular basis result qmunity decided make film screening annual activity planned tour qfs city indonesia qmunity said gayrelated event indonesia population muslim easy task firstever lgbt film festival organised predominantly muslim country qmunity member faced death threat strong islamic group tension increased member asked jakarta local government prove festival conformed islamic culture festival organiser also concerned local police made sufficient provision patron safety however praised police handling security festival festival organiser said government board censorship supportive towards nature event whilst commercial sponsor rejected connection gay issue partly security ground therefore financed start saving qmunity member supplemented noncommercial private donation help foreign cultural institution hired venue free charge september festival overtook jakarta international film festival london film festival former paris film festival term number film number screening number venue longer period time featuring film year festival attended people included many fringe event painting exhibition agung kurniawan photo exhibition six gay lesbian photographer literature talk new york novelist jamie james three panel discussion four international guest canada united kingdom japan attending festival list lgbt film festival