Film Data

Original Title

Paris Is Burning

English Title

Paris Is Burning

Director

Jennie Livingston

Genre

Production year

1990

Language

Production country

Subtitles

no

Themes

Not available

Runtime (minutes)

78

Synopsis

A documentary of New York’s LGBT scene in the 1980s, showing the real life of poor Black and Latin LGBT people, introduce the ballrooms, the categories, the houses, the voguing, and the dreams and ambitions of these people who are systematically excluded from society, they fight to conquer the right to be and to reinvent themselves in a world starring straight and white people. They use the balls to show their creativity, have fun with their community and family, shining, and having their names recognized in the ballroom scene.

About the Director

Jennie Livingston

Contributors

Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey

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