Burmese Butterflyto be shown at the Frameline 36 of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
“Burmese Butterfly,†a 13-minute short film, will screen during the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival at Victoria Theatre on June 21 at 7p.m.
Twenty-one-year-old hairdresser Phyo Lay looks back on a turbulent childhood and adolescence and describes how difficult it is to come out in Myanmar. A rare glimpse into the emergent gay community in this hitherto isolated country.
Burmese Butterfly – short film produced by the Yangon Film School in Myanmar
13 mins | Burmese w/English subtitle | 2011
Co-Sponsored and Presented by Asian Student Union (ASU) of San Francisco State University, Burmese Youth Association (BYA) and the Network of Myanmar American Association (NetMAA). The SF Burmese Film festival is the first ever held for the Myanmar (Burmese) community in the San Francisco and Bay Area.
AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi will take place November 3–10, 2011 in Hollywood, California at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres at the Hollywood & Highland Center, the Egyptian Theatre of the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
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