Music Queer
Tv series – 20 x 2′
Tv series – 20 x 2′
Music Queer tells the story of LGBTQIA+ recognition and demands through the great hits of popular song. From Juliette Gréco (Les Pingouins) to Lil Nas X (Montero) and David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), there is a musical history of queer culture. In particular, it allows us to recount the major stages of public visibility. First male and then female homosexuality are alluded to in a way that only insiders notice (Charles Trenet and his Jardin Extraordinaire or Little Richard and Tutti frutti). They are then affirmed (Frankie goes to Hollywood with Relax), proud and powerful despité the Aids years (Gloria Gaynor, I will Survive) or the bearers of demands (Lay Gaga with Born this Way ). Music Queer allows a grand narrative of conquests, which accompanies and sometimes precedes social changes.
Amandine Fredon
Rebecca Manzoni et Émilie Valentin
La Générale de Production & Xbo films & Foliascope
digital 2D
Rebecca Manzoni:
A producer at France Inter for several years now (25 years, to be precise), Rebecca Manzoni orchestrates Le Masque et la Plume and Totemic (an hour-long encounter with an artist). After co-writing and co-directing Music Queens in 2024, she does it again with the animated series Music Queer.
Amandine Fredon:
Amandine Fredon is an animation film director in Valence. She has directed several series such as C’est bon, Ariol, and Tu mourras moins bête. She co-directed her first feature film with Benjamin Massoubre, Le Petit Nicolas, qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux? Crystal Award, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, 2022. Her series Music Queens and Music Queer, directed with Rebecca Manzoni, are broadcast on Arte.
Emilie Valentin:
Emilie Valentin is a director and screenwriter. She writes series, animated or not (Music Queens & Music Queer, Paradoxes, Culottées, Un Entretien, Irrésistible, Yétili, Dédale…), directs documentaries for television that often have in common the highlighting of strong female figures (Aux armes, citoyennes, Françoise Hardy, la discrète, Sculptrices, ni muses, ni modèles…), and takes a strong interest in modes of narration found at the crossroads between documentary and fiction. In short, she loves to understand, and before that, she loves not to understand and to ask plenty of questions.
With the support of Arte, CNC, Région Occitanie, Région Auvergne Rhones-Alpes, Toulouse Métropole