Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter
and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the
subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and
has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of
art. He is Jewish, and gay.Lifshitz's work involves gay themes. His
2004 film, Wild Side, involves several narratives, some told forward
and some backward, about a transsexual prostitute.He is a two-time
winner of the Teddy Award, presented by an independent committee at
the Berlin International Film Festival to the year's best films with
LGBT themes, winning Best Feature Film in 2004 for Wild Side and Best
Documentary Film in 2013 for Bambi, a documentary profile of
transgender French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot.On 20 May 2014,
Rizzoli International published Lifshitz's The Invisibles: Vintage
Portraits of Love and Pride, a collection of gay-themed photos from
the early 20th century.
and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the
subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and
has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of
art. He is Jewish, and gay.Lifshitz's work involves gay themes. His
2004 film, Wild Side, involves several narratives, some told forward
and some backward, about a transsexual prostitute.He is a two-time
winner of the Teddy Award, presented by an independent committee at
the Berlin International Film Festival to the year's best films with
LGBT themes, winning Best Feature Film in 2004 for Wild Side and Best
Documentary Film in 2013 for Bambi, a documentary profile of
transgender French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot.On 20 May 2014,
Rizzoli International published Lifshitz's The Invisibles: Vintage
Portraits of Love and Pride, a collection of gay-themed photos from
the early 20th century.
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