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Johnny Symons is a Bay Area documentary filmmaker focusing on LGBT cultural and political issues. He is a professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University[1], where he runs the documentary program and is the director and co-founder of the Queer Cinema Institute.[2] He has served as a Fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program.[3]

His latest film Out Run[4], co-directed with award-winning filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival[5] and won Best Cinematography for a Feature Length Documentary Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.[6] His documentary Daddy & Papa, about the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men raising children[7], premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens, and was nominated for a national Emmy® for Best Documentary.[8] Ask Not, his award-winning feature-length documentary about the impact of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the US military[9], aired on PBS's Independent Lens[10]. Beyond Conception, a feature documentary about the relationship between a lesbian surrogate and a gay male couple, broadcast on Discovery Channel. Symons was co-producer of Long Night's Journey Into Day, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary.[11]

Filmography:

  • OUT RUN[12] (2016)
  • ASK NOT[13] (2008)
  • BEYOND CONCEPTION[14] (2006)
  • DADDY & PAPA (2002)[15]
  • BEAUTY BEFORE AGE[16] (1997)
  • SHAVING THE CASTRO[17] (1995)
  • OUT IN AFRICA[18] (1994)

References

  1. ^ Cruz, Gospel. "Professor Johnny Symons' 'Out Run' inspires at international film fests". San Francisco State University. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Queer Cinema Institute". San Francisco State University.
  3. ^ "DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM PROVIDES $1.5 MM IN GRANT SUPPORT TO FILMMAKERS IN FY2014". Sundance Institute.
  4. ^ MATZEN, KELSEY. "LGBTQ+ filmmakers screen documentary for National Coming Out Day". Golden Gate Express. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  5. ^ Wissot, Lauren. "Directors Leo Chiang and Johnny Symons Talk Screening LGBT Doc Out Run in Boycott State North Carolina". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  6. ^ MYERS, RANDY. "Frameline 2016: 10 films to see at 'King of Queer' film festivals". The Mercury News. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  7. ^ Wilkinson, Kathleen. "Choosing Fatherhood / Johnny Symons' "Daddy & Papa" looks at gay men becoming dads". SF Gate. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Independent Lens: Daddy & Papa". PBS.
  9. ^ Newsweek Staff. "WORTH IT: PBS DOCUMENTARY ON DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL". Newsweek. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  10. ^ Perry, Tony. "Review: 'Independent Lens: Ask Not' on KCET". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  11. ^ MITCHELL, ELVIS. "FILM REVIEW; Following South Africa's Wrenching Road to Truth". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "Films: TWIST features focus on queer APIs, Mekong a violent flick". The International Examiner. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Ask Not". SF360.
  14. ^ Koehler, Robert. "Review: 'Beyond Conception: Men Having Babies". Variety.
  15. ^ Bajko, Matthew S. "Gay dads gain visibility". The Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  16. ^ "Beauty Before Age IMDB". IMDB.
  17. ^ "Shaving the Castro". Stanford Department of Art & Art History.
  18. ^ "Production Credits". Iris Films.