JULIO REVISITED

Julio Revisited – a live audiovisual discussion with filmmaker Richard Shpuntoff about his next film on Queens LGBTQ history!

Date: February 24th, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm.
Price: FREE 
Location: In person at Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37th Avenue

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Born and raised in Elmhurst, Richard Shpuntoff was the official photographer of Queens Pride for its first 20 years (1993 – 2012). In 2016, he completed the feature length documentary film Julio of Jackson Heights, about the 1990 gay bashing murder of Julio Rivera, and its enormous impact LGBTQIA+ organizing in Queens, that directly led to the creation of the Queens Pride Parade.

The film premiered at the Queens World Film Festival where it won the Social Impact Award. He has received funding support from the Queens Council on the Arts for various projects in support of the Queens Pride Committee’s work on building awareness and understanding of the history of Queens Pride and the Queens LGBTQ community, and in 2016 I was awarded a “Special Honor for Service to the LGBTIQ Community of Queens for over two decades documenting and narrating the history of the community’s struggle” by the Queens Borough President. His most recent film, Everything that is Forgotten in an Instant, had its New York premiere at the documentary film festival of MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art). 

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