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Rainbow NewsSide-by-Side's 4-year history in a 10-minute film
6 Feb. 2012
A 10-minute film shows a four-year history of the "Side-by-Side" LGBT movie festival and is based on interviews of its participants and organizers for Russian and foreign mass medias and incorporated with clips of its famous and not-so-famous guests.
On the eve of its 5th anniversary that is to be celebrated in Saint-Petersburg in autumn, 2012, the Side-by-Side LGBT movie festival is summing up its activities and achievements. A week earlier we announced about plans to host it in the Russian capital.
Menni de Guer, one of the authors of this LGBT project, first came to Russia in 1996 after graduating the University in England where she had been studying Russian language and culture. "I myself wanted to see the changes in the Russian society that were going on at that time", she says in her interview for the Pinx. "Later I started to write my research paper about the Russian Rock and its sub-culture, took interviews with well-known at that time rock singers - Grebenschikov, Garkusha and other members of the "Leningrad's Rock Club" as well as with novice musicians, i.e. "Night snipers", Checherina, "Sense hallucinations" and others. By the way at that time Diana Arbenina did not hide her sexual orientation during the interview with me and openly told me about her relationship with Svetlana Surganova. It was an exciting time and I have learnt much about the Russian society and culture". Menni decided to stay in Russia.
"I have to say that being a lesbian that were grown up in England, I was shocked at the lifestyle of homosexuals in Russia - they being totally shut up, wrapped up by inner and outer fears of their identity, surrounded by stereotypes, prejudice and ignorance". "In due course", confesses Menni, "I have decided to try my best to change this situation. Russia is a complicated country from the point of view on its democracy but culture", believes Menni, "is a unique possibility to create an alternative dimension for self-awareness, coming out, unity and fight for the LGBT rights". "That is why I have decided to establish the Side-by-Side LGBT movie festival".
Other information and more details on the festival's history in Russia are given in a video, circulated yesterday by the Side-by-Side organizing committee.
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