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MEET THE ARTISTS
75 SHOTS Pocket Cinema serves as a lifeline for queer filmmakers and community members in need. Meet a few of our members and artists below.
 75 SHOTS has just a few weeks to raise the funds needed to make this transformative art residency a reality. This collective of queer filmmakers and artists from across Africa and beyond will gather in South Africa’s Western Cape for the first time after nearly a decade of virtual collaboration. For many of these creators, living in countries where homosexuality is criminalized, this residency offers a rare and vital sanctuary for healing, connection, and creation. Goal: $27k |  Khaled, a dear friend and founding member of 75 SHOTS, is a Queer activist from Tunisia who has risked everything to fight for equality and human rights. Forced to flee his home due to threats against his life, Khaled now faces deportation from Germany. Your support—whether through a donation or by sharing his story—can help. Goal: $15k |  Sharon Lewis' first Caribbean Canadian sci fi feature film inspired by Nalo Hopkinson's award winning novel. Cinema Feast is offering $500 matching gift discounts to donors who give equal amounts to the Brown Girl in the Ring-The Prequel Campaign. Goal: $30k exceeded @ $35k |  Alternative healing for breast cancer campaign, fundraising event and silent auction, for my sister and friend, inter-disciplinary artist Mai Vuong. Goal achieved $5k |
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 A sensitive heartwarming story of a young gay man coming out to his conservative mother in rural India, and how she copes with this very difficult truth. Award winning filmmaker, activist & Grand Marshall of Pride Montreal 2016, Sridhar Rangayan hopes to raise awareness & acceptance from parents of LGBTQ people with his latest film and parents’ support group in India. Cinema Feast is proud to offer FREE promo video or web design services to donors giving $500+ Campaign Goal: $20k |  Shannen Koostachin Monument Campaign. Honouring the dream of a child-activist for Equity and Equal access to Education. Cinema Feast is offering $250 matching gift discounts to donors who give equal amounts. Goal Achieved $12k, The monument was erected October 2015. |  Brought, Kamoga Hassan, Ugandan Queer activist, filmmaker and founder of the Only LGBTQ Film Festival in Africa, the Queer Kampala International Film Festival, to the largest social gathering of civil society to find solutions to the problems of our time, the World Social Forum Montreal 2016. Cinema Feast raised $2800 for transportation, accommodations and per diem for Festival Director of Queer Kampala International Film Festival. |
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