Susan Thomson

Películas

Tower
Producer
Era el 1 de agosto de 1966, y un mensaje se repetía en los medios de comunicación de Austin: “aléjense de la zona universitaria, hay un francotirador en la torre y está disparando”. El sitio al campus de la University of Texas duró 96 minutos, lo mismo que esta película que combina animación con imágenes de archivo para reconstruir el primer tiroteo masivo en un centro educacional norteamericano.
Ghost Empire § Singapore
Director
A documentary that looks at the anti-homosexuality law in Singapore, section 377A, which criminalizes male homosexuality with up to two years of a prison sentence. A British colonial law, it is based on the Victorian era Labouchere amendment, the same law which criminalized Oscar Wilde in England a century ago. This film looks at two constitutional challenges being taken by Tan Eng Hong and Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee between 2010 and 2014, one resulting from a conviction as the result of sex in a public toilet, the other brought by a couple who have been together 16 years.
Ghost Empire § Cyprus
Director
A look at the numerous recent arrests of gay men in Northern Turkish occupied Cyprus, including even the former Finance Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, under a British colonial law dating from 1889. The film looks at the internationally unrecognized North of Cyprus, the last divided capital of Europe and also the last place in Europe to criminalize homosexuality. The film talks to lawyers involved in a case taken to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ultimate repeal of the law in January 2014.