We will be joined by director Fan Popo for a post-screening Q&A.
Fan Popo is a queer independent filmmaker and curator. Born in 1985, he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. He published Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films (Beifang Wenyi Press, 2007) and directs the China Queer Film Festival Tour, which has travelled over 20 major cities in China since 2008. He has been a committee member of the Beijing Queer Film Festival since 2009, and a board member of the Beijing LGBT Centre since 2010.
His documentary works mostly focus on LGBT/Gender issues and his most important documentaries include: New Beijing, New Marriage (2009); Paper House (2009); Chinese Closet (2010); Be a Woman (2011); Mama Rainbow (2012); The VaChina Monologues (2013); Papa Rainbow (2016).
In 2011, Fan Popo received the Prism Prize of the 22nd Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and thus became the youngest winner of this prize so far. In 2014, he was named in the “40 Under 40” list of “The Advocate” magazine.
This will be chaired by Cheddar Gorgeous. Cheddar Gorgeous is drag artist and anthropologist based in Manchester UK. He is a host at Manchester’s monthly home of fabulous: Cha Cha Boudoir, and is the namesake of the drag group the Family Gorgeous. Cheddar combines makeup, costume and performance in all manner of transformations, from fashion icons to Unicorns and aliens . He is interested in drag as a living, socially engaged spectacle and form of queer storytelling. When not dressing up and entertaining people he spends his time writing, drawing and making films.