Fiche Film
Cinéma/TV
LONG Métrage | 1990
Paris is Burning
Pays concerné : États-Unis
Support : 16 mm
Durée : 78 minutes
Genre : musical
Type : documentaire

Français

Drag-Queens à New York. Du théâtre plus vrai que la vie, des déguisements qui montrent bien que l’habit fait le moine. Ils s’appellent Les Enfants. Dans la vie, ils sont prostitués,coursiers, représentants. Dans les bals de Harlem, ils sont Krystle et Blake Carrington de la série  » Dynasty « . Leur réalité quotidienne est faite de discrimination et de pauvreté. Mais en se déguisant, à travers la dance et leurs performances, les gays noirs et hispaniques de Paris is Burning transcendent un monde et des images qui les excluent.


Jennie LIVINGSTON, USA, 1990, VO angl. ST Nrld, 78′, vidéo (Moskwood / K-Films vidéo)



Awards

* 1990 IDA Award, International Documentary Association

* 1990 LAFCA Award Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

* 1990 Festival International gay et lesbien de San Francisco | 1990
> Prix du public
> Prix du meilleur documentaire

* 1991 Sundance Film Festival
> Grand Jury Prize Documentary

* 1991 Berlin International Film Festival
> Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film

* 1991 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (BSFC)
> Best Documentary

* 1991 Gotham Awards
> the very first Open Palm Award, now called Breakthrough Director Award

* 1991 NYFCC, New York Film Critics Circle Awards
> NYFCC Award Best Documentary

* 1991 Seattle International Film Festival
> Golden Space Needle Award
> Best Documentary

* 1992 GLAAD Media Awards
> Outstanding Film (Documentary)

* 1992 National Society of Film Critics
> NSFC Award Best Documentary

English

Paris is Burning
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the poor, African American and Latino gay and transgendered community involved in it. Many consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the « Golden Age » of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America.

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The Christian Film and Television Commission called for « all moral Americans » to boycott Jennie Livingston’s « Paris is Burning, » charging that it was a « homosexual propaganda film. » Livingston received grants from Art Matters, Inc., the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NEA film and video program.



# Director: Jennie Livingston

# Actors:
Carmen and Brooke
Dorian Corey
David The Father Xtravaganza
Pepper LaBeija
Willi Ninja
Freddie Pendavis
Sol Pendavis
Octavia St. Laurent
Bianca Xtravaganza
David Xtravaganza
Venus Xtravaganza
André Christian
Paris Duprée
Junior Labeija
Sandy Ninja
Avis Pendavis
Kim Pendavis
Stevie Saint Laurent
Anji Xtravaganza
Danny Xtravaganza
David Ian Xtravaganza
Shari Headley as Herself

DVD available
# Studio: Miramax
# Format: Import, NTSC
# Language: English
# Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
# DVD Release Date: Sep 6 2005
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# DVD Features:

* Available Subtitles: Spanish
* Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
* Commentary by: director/producer Jennie Livingston, editor Jonathan Oppenheim, stars Willi Ninja and Frewddie PendavisUnknown Format
* Outtakes






Festival gay et lesbien de San Francisco | 1990
Prix du meilleur documentaire

Awards

* 1990 IDA Award, International Documentary Association

* 1990 LAFCA Award Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

* 1990 Audience Award Best Documentary, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

* 1991 Grand Jury Prize Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

* 1991 Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film, Berlin International Film Festival

* 1991 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (BSFC) Best Documentary

* 1991 the very first Open Palm Award, now called Breakthrough Director Award Gotham Awards

* 1991 NYFCC Award Best Documentary, New York Film Critics Circle Awards

* 1991 Golden Space Needle Award Best Documentary, Seattle International Film Festival

* 1992 Outstanding Film (Documentary), GLAAD Media Awards

* 1992 NSFC Award Best Documentary, National Society of Film Critics
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