Sébastien Lifshitz
Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of art.
Lifshitz's work involves gay themes. His 2004 film, Wild Side, involves several narratives, some told forward and some backward, about a transsexual prostitute. [citation needed] He is a two-time winner of the Teddy Award, presented by an independent committee at the Berlin International Film Festival to the year's best films with LGBT themes, winning Best Feature Film in 2004 for Wild Side and Best Documentary Film in 2013 for Bambi, a documentary profile of transgender French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot.[1]
Filmography
- Il faut que je l'aime, 1994, screenplay and director
- Claire Denis la vagabonde, documentary, 1996
- Les Corps ouverts, 1997, screenplay, director and actor
- Les Terres froides, television film, as part of the Gauche-Droite (Left-Right) series for the Franco-German channel Arte, 1999, realisation, screenplay, director and actor
- Presque rien, 2000, screenplay and director
- La Traversée, documentary, 2001, director
- Wild Side, 2004, screenplay and director (Teddy Award for best feature film), 2004
- Plein sud, 2009, screenplay and director
- Bambi, 2013
Bibliography
Rees-Robertsn, N. French Queer Cinema (2008).
Reeser, T. "Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s," In Queer Cinema in Europe (2008).
Reeser, T. "Transsexuality and the Disruption of Time in Sebastien Lifshitz's Wild Side," in Studies in French Cinema (2007).
References
- ↑ "Berlin's Teddy Family". Interview, March 2013.
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