Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda
Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda is a 2014 American documentary about LGBT rights in Russia directed by Scott Stern and Michael Lucas.
Michael Lucas (director)
Michael Lucas( born Andrei Lvovich Treivas, March 10, 1972) is a Russian – Israeli- American gay pornographic film actor, director, activist, writer and the founder/ CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York City's largest gay- adult- film company.
He is a columnist for" The AdvocateHuffPost", and" Pink News".
The" New Republic" dubbed Lucas" Gay Porn's Neocon Kingpin", and" FrontPage Magazine" cited him as" the most mainstreamed, provocative, and controversial figure in gay adult entertainment today."
He contends that his film" Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita" is the most expensive gay porn film ever made, with a budget of$ 250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos.
In 2009, Lucas was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame, noted for" his stature as an A- list director and performer".
He was included in a 2009" New York" magazine feature about people who made it to the top, but arrived to the city with very little.
Lucas is particularly well known for his activism and outspokenness.
His criticism of drug use and his sponsorship of public service ad campaigns about the dangers of unprotected sex in the gay community led Harvey Fierstein to interview him for" The Advocate".
His" New York Blade" columns on Ultra- Orthodox Judaism and Islam sparked a campus debate at Stanford University in February 2008 when Lucas was invited to give a speech to students.
In 2010 he debated Peter Tatchell and Sue Sanders at England's Oxford University on whether the gay rights movement has undermined family values.
In 2009, Lucas released the film" Men of Israel", which he called his most important.
Journalists from" The AtlanticOut Magazine" and" Yediot Aharonot" noted it as a landmark film as the first pornographic movie shot on location with an all- Israeli cast; while" Tablet Magazine" and the" Los Angeles Times" remarked on it being the first to feature an all- Jewish cast.
Lucas followed the film with a gay tour of Israel.
New York's LGBT Center stopped allowing groups associated with the Israeli- Palestinian conflict to meet in their building after Lucas led a protest over their allowance of an anti-occupation group.
In recent years Lucas has also begun work as a documentarian.
In 2012, he released his first documentary film about the thriving Israeli LGBT community.
Titled, the film includes footage of Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife, a same- sex wedding, and candid interviews with a diverse range of local Israeli gays and lesbians, including a gay MP, an openly gay Army trainer, a drag queen, a transvestite, a young Arab- Israeli journalist, and same- sex parents raising their children and a number of artists and activists.
In 2014 Lucas released his second documentary," Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda," which investigates the current anti-gay climate in Russian politics and society.
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Bars of Hate
Bars of Hate is a 1935 American crime film directed by Albert Herman.
Timothy Bottoms
Timothy James Bottoms( born August 30, 1951) is an American actor and film producer.
He is best known for playing the lead in" Johnny Got His Gun"; Sonny Crawford in" The Last Picture Show" where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges, rose to fame; as James Hart, the first- year law student who battles with Prof.
Kingsfield, in the film adaptation" The Paper Chase"; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom" That's My Bush!" and in the comedy film and the docudrama.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich( born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian.
He is part of the wave of" New Hollywood" directors, and his most critically acclaimed and well- known film is the drama" The Last Picture Show"( 1971).
Bogdanovich also directed the thriller" Targets"( 1968), the screwball comedy" What's Up, Doc?"( 1972), the comedy- drama" Paper Moon"( 1973)," They All Laughed"( 1981), the drama" Mask"( 1985), and" The Cat's Meow"( 2001).
His most recent film," She's Funny That Way", was released in 2014.
Stephen J. Friedman (producer)
Stephen Jay Friedman( March 15, 1937 – October 4, 1996) was an American film producer known for" The Last Picture Show"( 1971) and" The Big Easy"( 1986).
In 1980, he formed Kings Road Entertainment—named after the West Hollywood street where he lived—making him one of the first independent film producers to raise substantial film funding through a publicly traded company.
Pandemonium (1987 film)
Pandemonium is a 1987 Australian fantasy comedy horror film in the style of" The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
Texasville
Texasville is a 1990 American drama film written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Based on the novel" Texasville" by Larry McMurtry, it is a sequel to" The Last Picture Show"( 1971), and features Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Timothy Bottoms, Randy Quaid, and Eileen Brennan reprising their roles from the original film.
" Texasville" is in color, while" The Last Picture Show" was filmed in black and white.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, holding a 55% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and did not do well at the box office, grossing just$ 2 million against its$ 18 million budget.
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel" The Last Picture Show" by Larry McMurtry.
Set in a small town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford( Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson( Jeff Bridges).
The cast also includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, and Cloris Leachman, and features Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, and Randy Quaid.
For aesthetic reasons, it was shot in black and white, which was unusual for the time.
The film features many songs of Hank Williams Sr. and other recording artists.
The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Ben Johnson and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor, and Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman for Best Supporting Actress, with Johnson and Leachman winning.
In 1998 the film was deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Question: Are the directors of both films The Last Picture Show and Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda from the same country?
Answer: yes