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Yanks vs. Brits:
I Want My Gay TV saturday april 27 12:30 pm PANEL - free - COLONY THEATRE |
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No one could have missed the explosion of home-grown gay and lesbian television programs, characters and storylines over the past few years. What's less obvious to the casual viewer in the United States is that, in many ways, this explosion has been an echo of the even more daring one taking place in Britain. Of course, the one obvious bridge in all this, for the avid film festival-goer, has been the Queer As Folk franchise, which first created a sensation in the U.K. and then, transformed into the Showtime American series, became a hit here. This year's Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival presents two other examples of British queer TV, Bob & Rose and Metrosexuality. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of what's actually airing across the Atlantic. In today's panel discussion we look at the similarities and differences between gay and lesbian programming in the United States and the United Kingdom. Is one better than the other? What are the cultural and production contexts in which these programs are being made? What are the limits, in content and style, that each country's TV industry must work with? Joining us will be Carol Coombes, Program Manager, Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, formerly of the British Film Institute; Russell Davies creator of the U.K. hits Queer as Folk and Bob & Rose; moderator Eric Freedman, filmmaker, Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University and member of the MGLFF Program Committee; and other surprise guests TBA.
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