Filmmaker and Festival Director Deborah Espect has been successfully operating and growing Brighton & Hove’s official LGBTQIA+ film festival FilmPride, which is now in it’s fifth year.
FilmPride curates indie queer films, made by, and about, members of the LGBTQIA+ community from all over the world and 2023 boasts a packed programme of shorts, documentaries and animations all broaching a wide range of topics within the queer community.
Beyond their home at the annual We Are Fabuloso Pride, Deborah has grown the screenings to cover an evening at The Ledward Centre & Duke’s at Komedia expanding the audience and offering even more distribution to the filmmakers. Alongside the physical screenings FilmPride is unique as, as well as hosting live events they offer selected filmmakers the opportunity to be screened on community, not-for-profit local TV channels in the UK such as Latest TV in Brighton and Northern Visions in Belfast. The FilmPride TV festival is a huge success; the two channels combined serve over 700,000 households, so if your film is on their channels, it will be seen by thousands more!
Ahead of the festival next week we spoke to Deborah about all of her work on the growing this unique and burgeoning festival which sits beautifully within the city of Brighton and also her work as a filmmaker.
Tickets can be purchased for all screenings over the various venues here and check out their instagram @filmpride for regular updates.
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