Chris in TEDDY Jury at Berlinale 2020
We are very glad to announce that our director Chris Belloni will be taking part as juror in the jury for the TEDDY Award at Berlinale 2020! Chris: “I feel honored to be taking part as juror in the TEDDY Award jury and an excellent opportunity to represent International Queer
Artivism for Social Change: Surinam
Our project Artivism for Social Change Surinam has kicked off with trainings in filmmaking and radio/podcast in February 2020. The upcoming two years, Stichting art.1 will keep returning to Surinam to conduct trainings in podcast, storytelling, film and human rights. We’re very exci
Queer Film Days in Albania
Between 18-22 September 2019 a new film event happened in Tirana, Albania. Entitled “Queer Film Days” (QFD), the program consists of a number of films and events which highlight topics that refuse to be invisible and tell stories that “create a new cultural space”. QFD has bee
The LightHouse Project
Today we submitted our project proposal The LightHouse Project in the Open Call for Cinemas as Innovation Hubs for Local Communities from the European Commission. The LightHouse Project consists of a consortium with cinemas, cultural institutions and film festivals from Latvia, Hungar
Screening Up Close & Personal: LGBT Police
On the 19th of July, International Film Festival Prishtina (PriFest) screened ‘Up Close and Personal: LGBT Police’, a film by Chris Belloni which documented the lives of LGBTQ+ police officers from different countries around the world, conveying a portrait of how their sexuality o
Attending the Training Refugees+ for Youth Workers in Brussels
Recently, our intern Clara Mendes participated in the training Refugees+ which took place in Brussels, organized by JINT and funded by Erasmus+. Besides her, other twenty-three people from 20 different nationalities joined the training, eager to learn about each other’s projects a
Pride Parade in Ljubljana
This year’s Ljubljana’s Pride Parade took place on Saturday, 22nd of June and art.1 had the pleasure to be a part of it. The parade happened on the last day of the Festival Parada Ponosa, which lasted for 12 days and included several cultural, performative, political, conversation
Art. 1 in Cuba
Art. 1 was invited to join the programming of the queer film festival “De la Rambla al Malecón – Festival por la Diversidad” in Cuba, which ended up being canceled by the government. However, it was still possible to organize a screening of our film “Up Close & Pers
First filmmaking training in Tirana, Albania
The filmmaking training in Tirana started on the 10th of May and it took place in the Marubi Film Academy. The group of participants consisted of 9 people, with ages ranging from 17 to 29 years-old. They all shared an affinity for the arts and particularly for filmmaking, but most of
Filmmaking training in Skopje, North Macedonia
The filmmaking training in Skopje happened between the 18th and the 22nd of April, and it was given by the Dutch trainer Nienke Eijsin and the local trainer Hanis Bagashov. We were received by a group of 9 participants, with ages varying from 17 to 26 years-old, who were very excited
