{"id":30837,"date":"2016-10-12T13:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=30837"},"modified":"2016-10-12T13:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:57:14","slug":"the-iris-prize-festival-returns-to-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/10\/12\/the-iris-prize-festival-returns-to-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iris Prize Festival returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The infamous Iris Prize Festival returns to Cardiff in search of a worthy winner of \u00a330,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Iris Prize Festival is commonly referred to as the \u201cGay Oscars\u201d and is the home of LGBT filmmaking.\u00a0During 12 &#8211; 16 October the search will begin in Cineworld on Mary Ann Street, for the ninth deserving winner.<\/p>\n<p>The festival celebrates the best of LGBT storytelling content from around the globe. It is identified as one of the top 50 film festivals in the world and was promoted by BAFTA to \u2018A\u2019 list festival status, alongside Cannes and Sundance.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation, the \u00a330,000 award remains the largest LGBT short film prize in the world. Seven short films have been produced with previous winners, with the eighth currently in pre-production.<\/p>\n<p>Capital FM\u2019s Matt Lissack is this year\u2019s presenter and says it is a fantastic opportunity to showcase talents and without Iris Prize, there would be \u201cvery little to no funding\u201d for LGBT filmmakers telling stories of LGBT people.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will be judging 35 individual short films. 25\u00a0are nominations from partner festivals and the remaining 10 are offered via an open submissions process. \u201cAnyone who has an amazing film can make that shortlist,\u201d Matt explained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Keenan-Bolger, an American filmmaker, made this year\u2019s shortlist. His story \u2018SIGN\u2019 is a silent film that tells the story of a deaf and a hearing man. Andrew said, \u201cThere are so many parallels between the deaf experience and gay experience. Both have fallen under historical systems of oppression and have been viewed by many as needing to be fixed or cured. Yet, both have built a rich culture and strong identity.\u201d When questioned on his inspiration, he said, \u201cFilmmaking is biased to a hearing audience. I was inspired to tell a story that could be enjoyed equally by both hearing and deaf viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Gay Oscars\u2019 is to return to Cardiff in search of the next best LGBT filmmaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":33527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,31],"tags":[44,731,3285,59],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-home","category-culture-lead","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-iris-prize","tag-lgbt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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