An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer Penelope Lawson
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
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The fundamental stages, from the seventies to the present day, of the GLBT movement in Palermo, told through archive images and interviews with personalities from the social and political life of the city, but also artists, entrepreneurs, ordinary citizens and exponents of associations for the protection of gay rights. A journey, between past and present, in the rainbow community of the Sicilian capital, which last year hosted, for the first time, the National Pride. An investigative documentary made with the patronage of the Sicily Region, the Municipality of Palermo and Arcigay, born, as the director Giuseppe Carleo himself underlines, to "clear the stereotypes and clichés that have always returned an erroneous image to our city, very often described as a homophobic and male chauvinist land. "
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The fundamental stages, from the seventies to the present day, of the GLBT movement in Palermo, told through archive images and interviews with personalities from the social and political life of the city, but also artists, entrepreneurs, ordinary citizens and exponents of associations for the protection of gay rights. A journey, between past and present, in the rainbow community of the Sicilian capital, which last year hosted, for the first time, the National Pride. An investigative documentary made with the patronage of the Sicily Region, the Municipality of Palermo and Arcigay, born, as the director Giuseppe Carleo himself underlines, to "clear the stereotypes and clichés that have always returned an erroneous image to our city, very often described as a homophobic and male chauvinist land. "
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