Film Festival: Screenings of Short Films and Video Works – Curated by Jetshri Bhadviya

The opening of the MR/QD Film Festival is on 26th June 2022 at College For Creative Studies (Taubman Campus) at 6pm on 11th Floor Gm Auditorium.

Location Address:
460 W Baltimore St, Detroit, MI 48202

We will kick-start out film screenings with “Beauty President at 6pm.

About Beauty President – Meet America’s First Drag Queen for President: “If a bad actor can be president, why not a good drag queen?” In 1992, Joan Jett Blakk made a historic bid for the White House as one of the first openly queer write-in candidates. Today, Terence Smith, the man behind the persona, reflects back on his place in gay rights history. Executive produced by Emmy®-winning actor-writer-producer Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani through their Hillman Grad Productions banner, Oscar®-nominated Ben Proudfoot, Abby Lynn Kang Davis and Dawn O’Keeffe.

Feel free to read more at https://breakwaterstudios.com/the-beauty-president/

Followed by a zoom conversation with Terence Alan Smith Facilitated by Billy Miller.

Followed by the screening of other MR/QD short films and video pieces by the following MR/QD artists:

• Billy Miller
• Carl George
• Jetshri Bhadviya
• John Briggs
• Levester Williams
• Merel Noorlander
• patrick burton
• Peter Sparling
• Phoebe Danaher
• Scott Northrup
• Shudi Chen
• Tony Whitfield

Followed by informal conversations with the curator and any present film/video artists.