It’s my fifth year following in Zā’s beautiful footsteps organizing this challenge!
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 Queerchallenge24 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 or simply don’t want to do that…
It’s my fifth year following in Zā’s beautiful footsteps organizing this challenge!
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 Queerchallenge24 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 or simply don’t want to do that criteria (this is supposed to be fun not homework!), you can swap it out for a criteria from a past challenge. Past challenges:
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Here are the criteria for the 2024 Queer Film Challenge:
1. Watch Funeral Parade of Roses, if you’ve already seen it or can’t access it you can rewatch or swap out for an older criteria or double up on criteria from this year (yes this is me forcing myself to finally watch it)
2. A queer adult film (yes, porn!)
3. A film directed by or starring David Wojnarowicz
4. A film based on the writing of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade aka Marquis de Sade
5. A film written or directed by Dennis Cooper
Use this link, both wikipedia and letterboxd have some missing information
www.imdb.com/name/nm1418756/
6. A film directed by Nagisa Ōshima
7. A film directed by Joel Schumacher
8. A film directed by Stephen Cone
9. A film edited by William Reynolds
10. A film starring Cesar Romero
11. A film starring River Gallo
12. A film directed or produced by Andrew Ahn
13. A film starring Randolph Scott
14. A film starring Tallulah Bankhead
15. A film starring Alexandra Shipp
16. A film starring Leslie Cheung
17. A film directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen
18. A film starring Sophia Bush
19. A film directed by, written by, or featuring Jenni Olson
20. A film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
21. A film directed by Peter Strickland
22. A film directed by a trans woman
23. A film directed by a trans man
24. A film by a non-binary or genderqueer director
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 queer comedy
37. A queer horror movie
38. A sci fi movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
39. An action movie with queer characters or directed by a queer person
40. An animated queer movie
