Queer Lives Matter - Trailer

Queer Lives Matter is a film about a journey to brave activists around the world. It tells the powerful story of young queer people who fight for freedom and equal rights.

QUEER LIVES MATTER

How LGBT-Activists Change the World

a Markus Kowalski Film

Protagonists Madir Öktem Usumi

Nehir Arya Tac

Yıldız Tar (KaosGL)

Hajar Moutaouakil

Smail Yassar

Ndumie Funda (Luleki Sizwe)

Ncedisa Nuse

Anzio Jabocs (Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action)

Shivali Chhetri

Simran Shaikh (HIV Alliance India)

Neysara Rai (Transgender India)

Nour Alahmmad

Sophia Zachariadi

Moira Lavelle

and many Others

from the Christopher Street Day in Berlin 2017

Camera Markus Kowalski

Emma Strauss

Alejandro Muñoz Hernández

Ralf Kowalski

Sebastian Schwabe

Russ C. Smith

Supporting Images & Video from Steffi Rohland

Ndumie Funda (Luleki Sizwe)

Hajar Moutaouakil

Madir Öktem Usumi

Shivali Chhetri

Russ C. Smith

Amnesty International Netherlands

Sophia Zachariadi

msusngi/Pond5

Funda Eryiğit/

Editor Russ C. Smith, ChocolateMedia.de (Berlin)

https://ChocolateMedia.de

Graphic Design & Titles Russ C. Smith, ChocolateMedia.de (Berlin)

Voice Over Engineer Ralf Wendt, radioworks Radio Corax, Halle (Saale)

Original Soundtrack Music

Russ C. Smith ©2018 ChocolateMedia.de

Liliya Danieva

Thanks to Christian Deker

Marlene Kowalski

Leonie Hopgood

Mouhcine Chahdi

Matthieu Chabert

George Kounanis

Alia Hotary

Orange House Athen

Solidarity Now Athen

Margarita Kontomichali

LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece

Can Sahin

Hakan Özkan

Kuir Istanbul

Phedali Lekwadu

Rainny

Kritika Singh

and Others, that must remain anonymous

for security reasons

Thanks for Consulting to Russ C. Smith

Luisa Meyer

Ulrike Gersten

Special Thanks to my parents, Ralf & Sabine Kowalski

Funding Support from Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung

Elledorado Schwul-Lesbischer Förderverein

also Sven Warminsky

Bund Lesbischer & Schwuler JournalistInnen e.V.

Marco Fritschi

Kerstin Schumann

Sebastian Brauns

Christian Deker

Chris Bush

Frank Jaspermöller

Oliver Bertsche

Jakob Frohmann

Werner Gaßner

Florian Franger

Andy Horschig

Lukas Hoffmann

Marcus Wallenborn

Georg Trettin

Gesine Hansel

75 more Crowdfunding Supporters

https://QueerLivesMatter.com

©2018 Markus Kowalski