"Join Goethe Pop Up Seattle for a conversation on the changing landscape of LGBTIQ+ cinema in Germany and the US to kick off the virtual exhibit and film series QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK.

Guests from Germany-- Wieland Speck, filmmaker, consultant, and long-time director of the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival; Skadi Loist, Visiting Professor for Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam; and Zoya Honarmand, organizer, film programmer, and curator at TransFormations: Trans* Film Festival Berlin-- will join Kathleen Mullen of Seattle’s Three Dollar Bill Cinema and Seattle Queer Film Festival to discuss the role of film festivals and curations in amplifying voices of LGBTIQ+ communities.

This event is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Instituts in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU)." (Promo Copy)