Since 1985, The Milano and Bologna Festival Internazionale di Cinema GayLesbico, has been the only Milanese and Bolognese event of public screenings of lesbian & gay films and has become one of the largest audience event in both cities.
The 2002 edition was a record success. It was the sixth year for our competitive sections: feature films, documentaries, short films, judged by international juries. The eleven days of screenings were succesfully attended by more than 14.000 viewers. National and local TV, radio, web and press coverage has been growing along with high number of journalists and professionals attending the event.
The winner film as Best feature 2000 HEAD ON, has been afterwards bought by Mikado, an Italian distributor, as well as the winner of Best feature 2001 DROLE DE FELIX.
The 16th International Lesbian and Gay Milan - Bologna Film Festival will be sponsored by the Italian National Cultural Office and will be co-organized and co-sponsored also by the Cultural Office of the Provincia di Milano and by the Museums and Cultural Affairs Office of the Comune di Milano and Regione Lombardia. The screenings in Bologna at Cinema Lumiére, National Cinemateque are co-organized and co-sponsored by the Cultural Office and the Social Affairs Office of the Regione Emilia Romagna, Provincia di Bologna and Comune di Bologna.
It is also confirmed the collaboration and co-sponsoring guaranteed by the International Foregin Cultural Offices based in Italy like the Céntre Culturel Français, the British Council, the British Film Institute, the Goethe Institut, the Canadian Embassy in Rome and the General Canadian Consolate of Milan. The main private sponsors of the Festival have been American Airlines, Mondadori, Mondadori Video, il Saggiatore, Oscar Mondadori, Raffaello Cortina Edizioni, Baldini & Castoldi, ES, Duel, La Repubblica, Eagle Pictures, Sei Milano, Babilonia, Pride, Duel, Gay.it, Emik, OUT Magazine, Mikado, Cecchi Gori, Lucky Red, Benetton, Energy, Body Shop, British GO, Scandinavian Airlines, TIMEOUT, Veryweb.
Along with the screenings of the films other cultural events are related to the MBLGFF.  David Leavitt presented and discussed with the audience his new books and along with other guests we'd like to remember Miriam Makeba, who presented and attended the Italian premiere of the documentary The man who drove with Mandela. The viewers in seven days during the Milan's screenings are around 11000 and 3000 in five days in Bologna.
Since 1985, the Milan and Bologna Festival Internazionale di Cinema GayLesbico, has been the only Milanese and Bolognese event of public screenings of lesbian and gay films. In the past five years the Milan International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has earned a respected and highly visible position in Milan's cultural events, with a succesfull press and Tv coverage and attendance of members of the Italian audiovisual industry.
 
 

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