
Queering the screen
Sydney’s queerest film festival opened with a bang on Tuesday night when luminaries attended the launch of the 2007 Mardi Gras Film Festival program. Queer Screen plans to bedazzle this year’s audiences with films under the general themes of perversion, reversion and subversion.
Opening night on 15 February will feature the finalists and award winners of My Queer Career, described by judge Margaret Pomeranz as about as diverse, interesting and downright entertaining as you can get. Attendees were treated to a sneak hint of the Queer Kino festival-within-a-festival, which will showcase a sampling of Germany’s remarkable queer film history from the birth of film itself to modern offerings of sexy German boys.
The Mardi Gras Film Festival will screen more than 200 films across five venues, including the extraordinary Infamous (pictured) known as the other Capote film. With an all-star cast including sexy new 007, Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini, Infamous will bring the festival to a close on Thursday 1 March.