My second attempt to continue where Zā left off. I've created some new criteria and literally just copied and pasted some of their criteria from past challenges.
I've kept it to 40 criteria and this time a good amount are necessarily short films so this should be a pretty doable year long challenge. I would love it if people created their own fun bonus criteria!
Tag all of your reviews with Queerchallenge21 so we can read each others reviews and post the link to your list in the comments below! I won't be creating a master list of participants just because I've already spent more time making this list than I should but we can all find and like each…
My second attempt to continue where Zā left off. I've created some new criteria and literally just copied and pasted some of their criteria from past challenges.
I've kept it to 40 criteria and this time a good amount are necessarily short films so this should be a pretty doable year long challenge. I would love it if people created their own fun bonus criteria!
Tag all of your reviews with Queerchallenge21 so we can read each others reviews and post the link to your list in the comments below! I won't be creating a master list of participants just because I've already spent more time making this list than I should but we can all find and like each others' lists in the comments.
If you have any trouble finding a movie to meet any of the criteria, you can swap it out for a criteria from a past challenge. Past challenges:
2017
2018
2019
2020
Here are the criteria for the 2021 Queer Film Challenge:
1 A film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
2 A film starring or written by Guinevere Turner
3 A film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia
4 A queer anime (feature or OVA)
a list to help:
letterboxd.com/mundof/list/opening-the-vault-a-chronological-history/genre/animation/
5 A documentary about a queer visual artist
6 A documentary about or featuring a queer musician, concert docs 100% allowed
7 A film based on a story by, a documentary about, or a film with a cameo by William S. Burroughs
8 A film directed by Paul Bartel
9 A film discussed on the Girls, Guts, & Giallo podcast:
boxd.it/8VbVu
10 A film discussed or referenced in Willow Maclay and Caden Gardner’s Body Talk conversations
curtsiesandhandgrenades.blogspot.com/search/label/Body%20Talk
daffyduckinhollywood.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/body-talk-with-willow-maclay-conversations-on-transgender-cinema-part-viii/
11 A film directed by MJ Bassett
12 Any movie that features canonically bi Catwoman/Selina Kyle, yes the non Selina Halle Berry movie is allowed
A list to help: boxd.it/8KHcY
13 A film starring Mae West
14 A film with someone from the main (I may be using this loosely but it ran a long time and people came and went) cast of The L Word that isn't Pam Grier
letterboxd.com/actor/jennifer-beals/
letterboxd.com/actor/erin-daniels/
letterboxd.com/actor/leisha-hailey/
letterboxd.com/actor/laurel-holloman-1/
letterboxd.com/actor/katherine-moennig/
letterboxd.com/actor/mia-kirshner/
letterboxd.com/actor/marlee-matlin/
letterboxd.com/actor/daniela-sea/
letterboxd.com/actor/karina-lombard/
letterboxd.com/actor/sarah-shahi-1/
15 A film starring Pam Grier
16 A film directed by François Ozon
17 A film directed by Silas Howard
18 A film directed by Ed Wood
19 A high school comedy with a queer main character
20 A film directed by Celine Sciamma
21 A film directed by Marlon Riggs
22 A film directed by Andy Milligan
23 A film with a non-binary character
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_non-binary_characters#Film
24 A film directed by Mateo Vargas
vimeo.com/mate0vargas
letterboxd.com/director/mateo-vargas-1/
letterboxd.com/director/mateo-vargas-2/
25 A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a woman.
26 A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a man.
27 A gay/mlm film directed by a woman
28 A gay/mlm film directed by a man
29 A film featuring an asexual character, or one theorized to be asexual since it's not something that really gets as much identity in film.
letterboxd.com/windyblue/list/asexual/
letterboxd.com/vonnepat/list/asexuality-on-screen/
letterboxd.com/holdenreviews/list/asexuality-on-film/
boxd.it/56gD2
30 A film featuring an actual bisexual character.
letterboxd.com/gdw/list/films-with-actually-bisexual-characters/
31 A film directed by Parker Brennon
www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIbanxEmJVh__My1mjWk8Q
32 A film from Jourdain Searles' black queer cinema list
33 A film directed by David DeCoteau
34 A short directed by Lisa Donato
www.lisadonato.com/
letterboxd.com/director/lisa-donato/
35 A film starring Queen Latifah
36 A film starring Tessa Thompson
37 A film directed by Chantal Akerman
38 A musical
39 A film referenced in Jessica Kellgren-Fozard’s History of Queercoding video:
youtu.be/GsO4fZYHQic
Movies are: Morocco (1930), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), My Summer of Love (2004), Lost and Delirious (2001), Dracula’s Daughter (1936), The Maltese Falcon, Rebel Without a Cause, Gilda, Bringing Up Baby, Lion King (1994), Hercules (1997), Sleeping Beauty (1959), Little Mermaid (1989), Xena: Warrior Princess
40 A film from autostraddle’s Best Lesbian, Queer, Bisexual movies of the decade list
letterboxd.com/soirore/list/autostraddles-50-best-lesbian-queer-and-bisexual/