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Paris Is Burning was written by Jennie Livingston (dir.), published in 1990 by Off White Productions / Miramax.

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Paris Is Burning

Name: Paris Is Burning
Released: 1990

Jennie Livingston (dir.) · Off White Productions / Miramax · 1990 · introductory

The definitive 1990 film record of late-1980s Harlem ball culture, voguing, and the ethics of dance documentation.

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Jennie Livingston directed and produced Paris Is Burning. She is a white American filmmaker whose work has focused on subcultural and marginalised communities. The film is her most widely known work and has been screened in museums, festivals, and academic settings globally. Livingston did not grow up in or belong to the ball community; her perspective as an outsider documenting an underground Black and Latino LGBTQ+ scene is central to ongoing discussions of the film's ethics.

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