Queen of the Deuce

Film program, GR 2023, 78 min., engl. OV

By: Valerie Kontakos

With: Chelly Wilson, Bondi Walters, Don Walters

A portrait of a somewhat different grandmother: Chelly Wilson was the “queen” of the adult movie theater district around New York’s Times Square in the 1970s – the “Queen of the Deuce”. The eccentric woman from Greece was charismatic and the natural center of her colorful bubble of family and friends. After an adventurous escape from the Holocaust, she became an entrepreneur and owned, among others, the gay Adonis Theatre on 8th Avenue. In her apartment above it, she held business meetings, stacked cash, played with her grandchildren or her poker buddies and had her lesbian lovers over.

Supporting film: La noche del minotauro

Kol 2023, 11 Min.
(X, H, L, NX, F, D)

By: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya

Experimental short documentary about Luz Emilia García, the pioneer of porn cinema in Colombia.