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Dancing Queens: It's All About Family

"Dancing Queens: It's All About Family" is a documentary short featuring bittersweet stories from Mumbai's premiere professional LGBT dance troupe known as the "Dancing Queens.” Taking place over the course of five years, Dancing Queens captures the heartache of losing out to discrimination, the triumph of family, and all the dances in-between.

  • Jeff Roy
    Director
    Mohammed to Maya / Rites of Passage (2012)
  • Abhina Aher
    Producer
  • Jeff Roy
    Producer
  • Godrej India Culture Lab
    Producer
  • Abhina Aher
    Key Cast
  • Urmi Jadhav
    Key Cast
  • Madhuri Sarode
    Key Cast
  • Rahul Sharan
    Director of Photography
  • U.S. Department of Education / Fulbright Program
    Funding Support
  • Godrej India Culture Lab
    Funding Support
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 45 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jeff Roy

Jeff Roy is a filmmaker and scholar whose work focuses on queer-transgender issues through an intersectional lens and in transnational contexts. His work has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright-mtvU, and Film Independent, and have received awards from the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival, San Francisco Festival of Short Films, and the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, among others. Roy's films have also screened in competition at over 50 film festivals, appearing at such prestigious venues as the Director's Guild of America, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Canadian Film Institute, the British Film Institute, Mumbai's Liberty Cinema and the Godrej India Culture Lab, among others.

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