Venice Film Festival Queer Lion Award

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The Queer Lion Award was created in 2007 thanks to the efforts of Daniel N. Casagrande, journalist and film critic, and Marco Müller, back then director of the Venice Film Festival, as a collateral prize for the “Best Film with Homosexual & Queer Culture Contents”.

From the Wikipedia article: All the movies containing LGBTQ themes, stories, plots, or characters, presented in any of the sections of the Venice Film Festival are considered eligible for the award. Specifically, these sections are: Concorso (Competition), Fuori Concorso (Out of Competition), Orizzonti (Horizons), Controcampo italiano (Italian Reverse Shot), Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), and Settimana Internazionale della Critica (International Critics' Week).

The Queer Lion jury, composed of journalists, directors, critics, persons with a deep knowledge of cinema, views all the movies deemed to contain noteworthy LGBTQ elements during the Venice Film Festival, picking the "best film" among them.