WHAT WE DO

Since 2016, 75 SHOTS Pocket Cinema has amplified under‑represented queer voices worldwide. Through smartphone filmmaking, curated archives, and bold collaborative projects, we train and support artists to tell their stories with courage, creativity, and heart. Frame by frame, we dismantle hatred—illuminating the unseen, the silenced, and the extraordinary. Shooting down hatred, one shot at a time.

THE ARCHIVE

The Cinema Feast Collection is a living archive of under-represented queer cinema, curated by 75 SHOTS. It showcases bold, poetic films by courageous queer artists from the Global South and diaspora, created in defiance of censorship, discrimination, exile, and erasure. This collection preserves memory, builds global solidarity, and amplifies voices too often silenced.

All films are selected by our programming committee, made up of members living in or affected by oppressive regimes, ensuring the work speaks to the communities it represents.

POCKET CINEMA TRAINING

This training transforms any mobile phone into a powerful, professional-grade tool for artistic expression and storytelling. Whether you're an emerging filmmaker, artist, activist, or simply curious, this hands-on, accessible program empowers anyone to create meaningful, high-quality videos using just a mobile phone. Through group or one-on-one sessions, participants explore the full filmmaking process while learning to express their stories with intention and impact. Rooted in collective creation, this training not only demystifies film production but affirms that art can transcend fear and hate, connect communities, and become a healing force for transformation.

UNDER THE RADAR

UNDER THE RADAR is a series of curated in person short film screenings celebrating under-represented New Queer Cinema from the Global South and the Diaspora. Submissions should be of interest to the queer community and demonstrate innovation and creative originality. Our goal is to create a space of solidarity for a population of artists within the local, national and international cultural scene, who face scrutiny, persecution or even criminalization on a daily basis by reclaiming public spaces.

MENTORSHIP

If you are an artist originally from an oppressive country, consider applying to 75 SHOTS POCKET CINEMA Mentorship Program. A scholarship is awarded to a person living in one of the countries that criminalizes homosexuality. We encourage inquisitive, passionate, motivated and engaged individuals with positive and cooperative attitudes to apply. You will learn to transform your smartphone into a professional tool to start telling your own stories.

Queer Facts

Key Facts

jurisdictions criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. The majority of these jurisdictions explicitly criminalise sex between men via ‘sodomy’, ‘buggery’ and ‘unnatural offences’ laws. Almost half of them are Commonwealth jurisdictions.

countries criminalise private, consensual sexual activity between women using laws against

"lesbianism', 'sexual relations with a person of the same sex' and 'gross indecency. Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest.

countries have jurisdictions in which the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. At least 6 of these implement the death penalty - Iran, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen - and the death penalty is a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE and Uganda.

countries criminalise the gender identity and/or expression of transgender people, using so-called 'cross-dressing, 'impersonation' and 'disguise' laws. In many more countries transgender people are targeted by a range of laws that criminalise same-sex activity and vagrancy, hooliganism and public order offences.