Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film about a culture of drag in Harlem in the mid-1980s. A film, prefer a culture it depicts, centers around formal cases called balls, where shirtlifter competed for trophies awarded to the virtually all convincing performance of various "categories," including but not limited to "real women," "schoolboy/girl," "opulent" & "military" & others. These performances, within connection by using a socioeconomic marginalisation of the men's day-after-day peoples when lower-class shirtlifter of color, may be seen as a complex form of social critique.

Directed by Jennie Livingston, a film won many awards to include: 1990 IDA Award, International Documentary Association 1990 LAFCA Award Right Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1990 Audience Award Right Documentary, San Francisco International Sapphic & Gay Film Festival 1991 Grand Jury Prize Documental, Sundance Film Festival 1991 Teddy for Better Docudrama, Berlin International Film Festival 1991 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (BSFC) Better Documentary 1991 Open Palm Award, Gotham Awards 1991 NYFCC Award Right Documentary, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1991 Golden Space Needle Award Right Documentary, Seattle International Film Festival 1992 Great Film (Documental), GLAAD Media Awards 1992 NSFC Award Better Documentary film, National Society of Film Critics