TEDDY Talk: Queer Creations Part 4
Abschnitt Info
The Queer-Creation Talks serve as a platform for exploration, analysis, and connection within the queer film ecosystem—bringing together individuals, organizations, and initiatives that shape and support queer cinema. Part 4 of the series examines the importance of the queer film festival network and the role marketing and distribution plays in positioning a film as both cultural products, vehicles for activism and wide spread cinema releases. What decisions come into play when defining the strategic direction of a film, and how much has the queer film festival network supported the wider release of queer films over the years?
Date: Wednesday, 18.02.26
Location: EFM, Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963, Berlin
Start: 15:00
Free entry with accreditation.
Moderator:
Djamila Grandits
Cultural worker, Curator, Film Programmer
Pronouns: she/her
Djamila Grandits is a Vienna-based curator and film programmer. Part of CineCollective and D—Arts. Currently working on the pre-selection committee of Berlinale Panorama. Former member of the non-fiction commission of Zürcher Filmstiftung. Previously programmed with Diagonale, DOK Leipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, sixpackfilm, frameout and tricky women - tricky realities. Her practice is grounded in care and curiosity for moving image practices, collective and speculative curatorial movements.
Panelists:
Charles Bin
Co-Founder, Best Friend Forever
Pronouns he/him
Best Friend Forever is an international sales company based in Brussels created in May 2019. BFF supports brilliant producers and directors, emerging or confirmed, bringing their projects to reality through international sales, development financing, legal and/or financial consulting.
Our slate includes prestigious first and second features like ‘A Useful Ghost’ by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (Cannes Critics Week Grand Prize 25), ‘Universal Language’ by Matthew Rankin (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award 24), Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham (Berlinale Competition 24), Banel & Adama by Ramata Toulaye-Sy (Cannes Competition 23).
Andreas Bühlmann
Deputy Director, SWISS FILMS
Artistic Co-Director, Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich
Pronouns he/him
Andreas Bühlmann (*1986) holds a master’s degree in film studies from the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne. After working for several Swiss film festivals as curator and head of industry, he is Artistic Co-Director of Switzerland’s biggest queer film festival, Pink Apple, since 2019.
He joined SWISS FILMS, the national promotion agency, in 2016 to strengthen the international visibility of upcoming Swiss talents and to establish new market activities. Since 2026 is appointed as deputy director and is responsible for all industry activities and the international presence of Swiss filmmaking. He is member of the European Film Academy and the Swiss Film Academy.
Skadi Loist
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Pronouns: they/hen
Skadi Loist is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. With long-standing involvement in queer film cultures across festivals, networks, and academia, they earned a PhD on Queer Film Culture and have published widely on film festivals, queer cinema, and diversity and sustainability in the media industries. Skadi is co-editor of Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice (2016) and the anniversary volume Bildschön on the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (2009).
Kat Setzer
Director of Programming, image+nation. festival film LGBT2SQueer Montréal
Pronouns: they/them
Kat Setzer is the Director of Programming at IMAGE+NATION, Montreal’s LGBT2SQueer Film Festival, the oldest queer fest in Canada, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2027. Originally from Vancouver, they hold a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University. Kat is a writer, producer, teacher and erstwhile filmmaker, with titles including the short film, TRUST ME that has screened at over 100 international queer film festivals as well as in the Canadian Video Showcase at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in 2000.
During their tenure at image+nation, Kat has co-produced LGBTQ+ cultural projects such MY QUEER CANADA, an online grassroots Canadian queer history project, I+N STORYLAB, a scriptwriting initiative and storytelling thinktank as well as I+N COURTS QUEER SHORT FILM FEST, the first Canadian queer short film festival unspooling its sixth edition this June. Additionally, virtual projects are in development to encourage queer stories and storytellers across the Canadian and international media landscape.
Kat has lectured at Concordia University, McGill University and Vanier College in Montreal and sits on the Advisory Committee of mediaqueer.ca. As well, they have served on juries at Frameline, San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Inside Out, Toronto, GAZE, Dublin LGBTQIA Film Festival, Out on Film, Atlanta, OUTShine Miami and Boston’s Wicked Queer not to mention the TEDDY jury at Berlinale and Premio Maguey jury at FICG, Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Ray Yeung
Screenwriter & Film Director
Executive Director, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Pronouns: he/his
Ray Yeung's latest feature, All Shall Be Well, had its world premiere at the 2024 Berlinale International Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film. This marks Yeung's third feature, following Suk Suk (Twilight’s Kiss), which premiered at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival and the 2020 Berlinale. In 2021, he was honored as the Artist of the Year in Film by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Additionally, Yeung has served as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival since 2000.