White Paper () is a 2010 Iranian animated short film about LGBT rights and homophobia, directed by Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib. It is director's debut short animation.
Premise In a monochromatic world, six colored children are isolated and driven out by their families for being different. Grouping together the young outcasts become a community and change their world from a bleak and persecuted world to a bright, colorful and tolerant one that accepts people of all colors.
Festivals & TV
Festivals
2010
Student National Film Festival - Iran
2011
FiLUMS - International LUMS Film Festival - Pakistan Out Film Festival - USA Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival - USA Seoul International Youth Film Festival - South Korea Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival - USA Eau Queer Film Festival - USA Sacramento International LGBT Film Festival - USASacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival South Texas Underground LGBT Film Festival - USA Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - USA Roshd International Film Festival - Iran Reeling: Chicago International LGBT Film Festival - USA Soore National Short Film Festival - Iran Mix Brasil Film Festival - Brasil
2012
Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival - Canada Zinegoak International Film Festival - Spain Sekanse Bidari National Film Festival - Iran Diversity in Animation Festival - Brasil Pink Apple Film Festival - Switzerland London Lesbian Film Festival - Canada Out Twin Cities Film Festival - USA Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival - India Campfire Film Festival - Australia The Xposed International Queer Film Festival - Germany Louisville LGBT Film Festival - USA North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - USA Hamburg International Queer Film Festival - Germany
2013
Out in the Desert: Tucson's International LGBT Film Festival - USA Malmo Queer Film Festival - Sweden Torino LGBT Film Festival - Italy Queer Film Festival - Identities Vienna - Asturia Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara - Mexico 48,40 Frames - Kurzfilmfestival - Austria Festival Internacional de Cine, Arte y Cultura - Paraguay
2015
CSM International Children's Film Festival - India
TV 2010 - December - IRIB 4 - Iran 2011 - July - Itzon TV - Online 2011 - November - Shoma TV - Iran
Project 2014 - 2 March - Art For Freedom's secretprojectrevolution by Madonna
Awards
2011 – Emerging Filmmaker Award: South Texas Underground LGBT Film Festival
Credits Producer: Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib Screenwriter: Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib Designer: Mojtaba Gheybie Animator: Seyed Ali Sayah Sound: Hamidreza Yasouri Edit: Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib
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