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Des reportages de PublicG TV sur le festival du film gay et lesbien de Saint Etienne de 2010, "Sport et homosexualité".

















Inauguration:

Séminaire Sport et homosexualités:

Jour 3:

Photo album from Saint Etienne film festival

A new photo album is online featuring pics from the Saint Etienne film festival.

View it HERE.

Saint Etienne film festival Sunday brunch features Queer Comrades documentary and It Gets Better

At the suggestion of the FGG, the organizers of the Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival requested participating filmmakers to offer their services to film a few contributions to the It Gets Better project. The videos were made during the Ciné-Brunch, which featured a screening of the remarkable documentary produced by Queer Comrades China, entitled Be Part of It. Watch the video HERE.

Thanks to Sylvie, Antoine, and all the volunteers of Face à Face for an exceptionally rich festival and their kind invitation to the FGG, the FSGL and EGLSF.

We'll post the link to the In Gets Better video soon.

Saint Etienne film festival special public sessions on sport and homosexuality

The films shown were:
Sport et homosexualités, c'est quoi le problème ? (sport and homosexualities, what's the problem?)
Be part of it : en être ? (be part of it, be one of them?)
Gais Gay Games (understand what the Gay Games are about)

Panel discussion: "Sport and homosexuality, where are we at?"
Sports as part of the LGBT movement and actions against homophobia.

The sessions were divided in two, with a first focus on football, including EGLSF's involvement in the FARE program, and a second focus on LGBT sport, including the FSGL, EGLSF and Eurogames, FGG and Gay Games, and Equipe France 2010.

Moderated by Christelle Lagattu,journalist and former president of the FSGL.
with:
- Patrick Revelli (patron of the festival, former star of the AS Saint Etienne football team)
- Yves Bourgeay (director)
- Louis Dupont (director)
- Brahim Naït-Balk (Paris Foot Gay)
- Yoann Le Maire(football player)
- Armelle Mazé (EGLSF)
- Philippe Liotard (sociologist)
- Christelle Foucault (VP FSGL, delegate to the FGG, chair of Equipe France 2010)
- Maria Salvietti (VP FSGL, delegate to the FGG)
- Catherine Thiollière (director)
- Emy Ritt (co-president FGG) (also in attendance from the FGG, board members Marc Naimark and Sonia Abécassis)



Info on the day's program HERE.

What's this?

It's the new Maison de l'emploi, the jobs center of St Etienne, which hosted today's seminar on LGBT sport organized by Face à Face as part of their film festival. Three original films based on Gay Games VIII were screened, followed by a discussion with sports science students, educators, and journalists, moderated by Christelle Lagattu. In addition to the filmmakers, sociologist Philippe Liotard made a remarkable intervention, including a critique of the complaint of LGBT sport being a ghetto.

Liotard noted that very few people seem concerned by the real ghetto of the privileged who live among themselves in isolation from people with different backgrounds and social status, surely a danger to society as great as France's poverty-stricken suburban housing projects or some gay folks playing sport. He also pointed out that sport if based on rules that do not allow people to play against each other: if you want to race against an Olympic champion runner, you will not be able to. An adult can't compete in the Little League, and a man can't compete in the WNBA. On the contrary, the Gay Games are an event in which anyone from an Olympic champion to a beginner, from a top young athlete to an 80 year old, can play together and compete in the same event.

Also speaking were Maria Salvietti, VP of the FSGL, and Marc Naimark, sports officer of the FGG. A noted presence was that of Bruno Aussenac, who made the trip down to St Etienne for the opening of the festival yesterday and today's seminar before returning early tomorrow for a series of annual general assemblies of FSGL member clubs.

Saint Etienne film festival opens with school screenings

The Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival opened yesterday with two showings for school groups.

The screenings were organized with the Ministry of Health and Sport and the National Health Education Institute for secondary school students. Over 100 students attended each screening, which were followed by a discussion with Brahim Naït-Balk, trainer of Paris Foot Gay football club and author of a noted memoir on being gay in housing projects, Pascal Brèthes, president of Paris Foot Gay, and Patrick Revelli of the legendary Saint Etienne professional football team, patron of the festival.

The films shown were two short subjects produced by Canal Plus and the Ministry of Health and Sport: Basket et Maths, about the attraction between two young basketball players, and Pauline, the story of a young lesbian woman living in a village and the difficulties of being accepted by her family and neighbors, and Michel Royer's documents Sports et Homosexualité,c'est quoi le problème ? about sport, homosexuality and homophobia. The documentary features former football international Lilian Thuram, triathletes Jessica Harrison and Carole Péon, football commentator Olivier Rouyer, Olympic medal winner Matthew Mitcham, and many others.

For such a difficult subject, the students were fairly well behaved. The Q&A after the screenings were difficult, showing the importance of the preparation done by teachers before the events. A very positive outcome of this year's school screenings was the decision to move them to later in the year, and to involve teachers in the choice of programming. As is typical in school screenings, the richest exchanges took place at the very end of the session, and even more important, after the screening, when students can approach the speakers directly and less self-consciously.

Info on the day's program HERE.

Saint Etienne film festival to close with a final salute to the Gay Games

The Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival closes this Sunday with a series of regular film screenings. But before that, a final look at the Gay Games will take place during the midday "Cine-Brunch", featuring images from Gay Games VIII.
Info on the day's program HERE.

Saint Etienne film festival offers special public sessions on sport and homosexuality

The Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival will include public sessions this Saturday devoted to sport and homosexuality.

10.00 - Cultural visit of Saint-Etienne

14h00 - Screening and panel discussion
The films shown include:
Sport et homosexualités, c'est quoi le problème ? (sport and homosexualities, what's the problem?)
Be part of it : en être ? (be part of it, be one of them?)
Gais Gay Games (understand what the Gay Games are about)

Panel discussion: "Sport and homosexuality, where are we at?"
Sports as part of the LGBT movement and actions against homophobia.

Moderated by Christelle Lagattu,journalist and former president of the FSGL.
with:
- Patrick Revelli (patron of the festival, former star of the AS Saint Etienne football team)
- Pascal Brethes(Paris Foot Gay)
- Yves Bourgeay (director)
- Louis Dupont (director)
- Yoann Le Maire,(football player)
- Armelle Mazé (EGLSF)
- Philippe Liotard (sociologist)
- Christelle Foucault (VP FSGL, delegate to the FGG, chair of Equipe France 2010)
- Emy Ritt (co-president FGG)
- Marc Naimark (FGG)
- Maria Salvietti (VP FSGL, delegate to the FGG)
- Catherine Thiollière (director)

Info on the day's program HERE.

Saint Etienne film festival opens on Thursday with school screenings

The Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival will open this Thursday with two showings for school groups.

The screenings are organized with the Ministry of Health and Sport and the National Health Education Institute for secondary school students. They'll be followed by a discussion with Brahim Naït-Balk, trainer of Paris Foot Gay football club and author of a noted memoir on being gay in housing projects, and Patrick Revelli of the legendary Saint Etienne professional football team.

The films shown are two short subjects produced by Canal Plus and the Ministry of Health and Sport: Basket et Maths, about the attraction between two young basketball players, and Pauline, the story of a young lesbian woman living in a village and the difficulties of being accepted by her family and neighbors, and Michel Royer's documents Sports et Homosexualité,c'est quoi le problème ? about sport, homosexuality and homophobia. The documentary features former football international Lilian Thuram, triathletes Jessica Harrison and Carole Péon, football commentator Olivier Rouyer, Olympic medal winner Matthew Mitcham, and many others.

That evening the official opening will take place at the Saint Etienne tourist office, followed by the first screenings of the official program.

Info on the day's program HERE.

Saint Etienne film festival promo

Teaser festival "FACE à FACE" 2010
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More info HERE.

One week to Saint Etienne (France) seminar

As part of the Saint Etienne gay and lesbian film festival organized by FSGL member FACE A FACE, a seminar on the theme of "Other practices to explore in sport with LGBT sports organizations" will take place on Friday 26 November.

The seminar is aimed at students and professionals in the fields of sport, education, health, professional training, communications, and justice.

A panel discussion will follow the screening of three original films produced during Gay Games VIII. On the panel will be the filmmakers, sociologist Philippe Liotard, host of the university conference "Sport and homosexualities" held in conjunction with the 2006 FGG Annual Meeting, Marc Naimark, FGG Sports Officer, and Maria Salvietti, VP of the FSGL and its delegate to the FGG. The moderator will be Christelle Lagattu, journalist, filmmaker, and former president of the FSGL.

The full program for the seminar can be found HERE.
More info on the screenings for school groups and the general public can be found HERE.

St Etienne gay and lesbian film festival focuses on Gay Games and sport

The spotlight of world gay and lesbian cinema once again focuses on Saint-Etienne for four days of spectacular events.

For its sixth edition, the FACE à FACE [FACE TO FACE] festival (website HERE) is introducing a special program featuring films with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes, with a focus this year on sport.

The Thursday school sessions will show Michel Royer's Sport et homosexualités : c'est quoi le problème ? along with short films from the Ministry of Sport/Canal Plus screenwriting contest (Basket et maths and Pauline).

Friday afternoon there will be a workshop with educators and political and sports leaders, alongside people from the film world, on the themes of the films proposed during the festival.

On Saturday, two sessions will be devoted to sport, first with a screening of Royer's documentary, followed by a panel discussion with Patrick Revelli, patron of the festival and a former player from Saint-Etienne's famous football team, Pascal Brèthes of Paris Foot Gay, Maria Salvetti, VP of the FSGL and their delegate to the FGG, football player Yoann Lemaire, and Armelle Mazé, board member of the EGLSF.

The second session will feature original films created by Saint-Etienne filmmakers during Gay Games VIII: Be part of it : en être, by Catherine Thiollière and Yves Bourgeay, and Gais Gay Games, a documentary and an associated series of webdocumentaries by Françoise Romand, followed by a panel discussion with the directors, and Emy Ritt, co-president of the FGG, Marc Naimark, Sports Officer for the FGG, Christelle Foucault, VP of FSGL and chair of Equipe France 2010, and Armelle Mazé.