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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, co-directed with award-winning filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and won Best Cinematography for a Feature Length Documentary Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. His documentary Daddy & Papa, about the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men raising children, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens, and was nominated for a national Emmy® for Best Documentary.[4] Ask Not, his award-winning feature-length documentary about the impact of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the US military, aired on PBS's Independent Lens[5]. 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.

Filmography:

  • OUT RUN[6] (2016)
  • ASK NOT[7] (2008)
  • BEYOND CONCEPTION[8] (2006)
  • DADDY & PAPA (2002)
  • BEAUTY BEFORE AGE[9] (1997)
  • SHAVING THE CASTRO[10] (1995)
  • OUT IN AFRICA[11] (1994)

References

  1. ^ "School of Cinema Faculty: Johnny Symons". San Francisco State University.
  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. ^ "Independent Lens: Daddy & Papa". PBS.
  5. ^ Perry, Tony. "Review: 'Independent Lens: Ask Not' on KCET". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Out Run Movie". Out Run Movie.
  7. ^ "Ask Not". SF360.
  8. ^ Koehler, Robert. "Review: 'Beyond Conception: Men Having Babies". Variety.
  9. ^ "Beauty Before Age IMDB". IMDB.
  10. ^ "Shaving the Castro". Stanford Department of Art & Art History.
  11. ^ "Production Credits". Iris Films.