My third 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 a good amount of these can be feature or 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 Queerchallenge22 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 but we can all find and like each others' lists in the comments.
If you have any trouble finding…
My third 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 a good amount of these can be feature or 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 Queerchallenge22 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 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
2021
2022 is the anniversary of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death so we're starting off with two criteria related to him.
Here are the criteria for the 2022 Queer Film Challenge:
1 A film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
2 A film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder that he did not direct
3 A film written by, based on a story by, about, or featuring Truman Capote
4 A queer film with fairy tale elements, or a fairy tale film with queer elements (characters, subtext, allegories, etc.)
5 A film from before 1990 on Amy Isaac's queer cinema crash course list
6 A film directed by Monika Treut
7 A film written by, based on a story by, or featuring Alice Walker
8 A film scored by or starring Wendy Carlos
9 A film scored by Laura Karpman
10 A film scored by Marc Shaiman
11 A film directed by Su Friedrich
12 A queer film based around a holiday
13 A film starring Elvira/Cassandra Peterson
14 A film directed by a trans woman
15 A film directed by a trans man
16 A film by a non-binary director
17 A film with a non-binary character; a somewhat but not extremely helpful wiki page
18 A Wonder Woman movie, or a movie featuring her, yes Professor Marston and The Wonder Women counts
19 An explicitly queer film, a film with queer subtext, or a film directed by a queer director from the 1930s or 40s
20 A film starring Sarah Paulson
21 A film starring Holland Taylor
22 A film directed by Cressa Maeve Beer
23 A film starring Vincent Price
24 A film starring Michelle Rodriguez
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.
Some lists to help:
letterboxd.com/windyblue/list/asexual/
letterboxd.com/vonnepat/list/asexuality-on-screen/
letterboxd.com/holdenreviews/list/asexuality-on-film/
letterboxd.com/revvydot/list/good-asexual-aromantic-films-confirmed-or/
30 A film featuring an actual bisexual character.
A list to help:
letterboxd.com/gdw/list/films-with-actually-bisexual-characters/
31 An African queer film
32 A Latin American queer film
33 A European queer film
34 A Middle Eastern queer film
35 An Asian queer film
36 A film produced by Megan Ellison
37 A film directed by Carter Smith
38 A film directed by Russell Mulcahy
39 A film starring, written by, or directed by Carrie Brownstein
40 A film directed by Isabel Sandoval, or a film mentioned on her episode of the letterboxd show or a film mentioned in her sensual cinema piece
