3000 Lesbians Go To York
The director Rachel Dax will be attending the screening. This screening is a Welsh premiere.
DIRECTOR:
Rachel Dax
PRODUCER:
Jane Traies, Rachel Dax & Kate O’Dwyer
RELEASE YEAR:
2025
TRAILER
Screening: Sat 18 Oct, 2pm @Vue Screen 1
3000 Lesbians Go To York tells the extraordinary true story of how a lesbian bookseller (who also happened to be trans) created the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ women in the UK, and how from 1998 to 2008, the quietly conservative city of York became the unlikely centre of all things lesbian! For one decade, thousands of women flocked to the York Lesbian Arts Festival each autumn, to meet their favourite authors, buy books, hear top female artists live on stage and dance the night away at the ‘disco of a thousand lesbians’. This documentary takes you through the festival programmes and on a tour of lesbian culture.
Mae 3000 Lesbians Go To York yn adrodd stori wir ryfeddol am sut y creodd llyfrwerthwr lesbiaidd (a oedd hefyd yn draws) y casgliad mwyaf o fenywod LHDTQ+ yn y DU, a sut, o 1998 i 2008, y daeth dinas dawel geidwadol Efrog yn ganolfan annhebygol o bopeth lesbiaidd! Am ddegawd, heidiodd miloedd o fenywod i Ŵyl Gelfyddydau Lesbiaidd Efrog bob hydref, i gwrdd â’u hoff awduron, prynu llyfrau, clywed artistiaid benywaidd arbennig yn fyw ar y llwyfan a dawnsio drwy’r nos yn ‘disgo mil o lesbiaid’. Mae’r rhaglen ddogfen hon yn eich tywys trwy raglenni’r ŵyl ac ar daith o ddiwylliant lesbiaidd.
Rachel Dax is an award-winning writer, director and producer of film and audio drama, as well as a novelist and a university lecturer. After many years of making short films, Rachel recently moved into making feature length documentaries.
Having fallen in love with filmmaking, Rachel set up DaxiTales Ltd releasing over five films. In 2019 she made a film, Time & Again starring Dame Siân Phillips and Brigit Forsyth which was screened at over 65 festivals and won 15 awards.
Mae Rachel Dax yn awdur, cyfarwyddwr a chynhyrchydd ffilm a dramâu sain arobryn, yn ogystal â nofelydd a darlithydd prifysgol. Ar ôl blynyddoedd lawer o wneud ffilmiau byrion, symudodd Rachel yn ddiweddar i wneud rhaglenni dogfen hyd llawn.
Ar ôl syrthio mewn cariad â gwneud ffilmiau, sefydlodd Rachel DaxiTales Ltd gan ryddhau dros bum ffilm. Yn 2019 gwnaeth ffilm, Time & Again gyda’r Fonesig Siân Phillips a Brigit Forsyth a ddangoswyd mewn dros 65 o wyliau ac enillodd 15 gwobr.
