Avant-Drag! gets its UK premiere at Raindance Film Festival
Avant-Drag!, an exhilarating film centred on the lives of ten Athenian drag artists by Dr Fil Ieropoulos, will get its UK premiere at next week.
The film by BNU鈥檚 Senior Media and Creative Industries Lecturer gets its timely UK debut during Pride month, showing following a string of international viewings in Netherlands, US, Greece, Poland, Austria, Germany.
Currently rated an impressive 8.2 by audiences on IMDB, deconstructs gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, transphobia and racism.
Reviewer Daniel MacCannell said, 鈥淎s entertaining as it is thought-provoking, the film challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about LGBTQ+ culture, proving that being othered never felt so familiar.鈥
Dr Fil Ieropoulos said, 鈥淗aving taught experimental film for over 20 years at BNU and holding a PhD on the Relationship between film and poetry, this is in many ways a culmination of my research so far.
鈥淚鈥檓 extremely proud of Avant-Drag! and look forward to speaking at the UK premier next week.鈥