Amazon Prime Video and SXSW have announced the virtual film fest Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection which will play exclusively on Prime Video in the U.S. from Monday April 27th 2020 running through May 6th. The collection features 39 titles from the official 2020 SXSW Film Festival lineup and will be... Continue Reading →
The Stonewall Inn Gives Back – livestream fundraiser concert for LGBTQ+ nightlife industry
This Thursday April 23rd at 8pm ET/5pm PT Michelle Visage and Tyler Oakley will host a star-studded livestream concert, The Stonewall Inn Gives Back, to raise funds for LGBTQ nightlife workers in need during the COVID-19 crisis. The live online event will stream on World of Wonder’s YouTube channel WOW Presents and is set to... Continue Reading →
Snuggle Up with Peccadillo’s Sofa Club – End of the Century Q&A
Peccadillo Pictures is doing their bit to get us all through this time of social distancing with their Sofa Club - made up of great queer films and insightful YouTube Q&As. As they say, "You may be distant, but let's get social". This week it's time for The Queer Review favourite, End of the Century... Continue Reading →
Exhibition: Tom of Finland – Love and Liberation (House of Illustration, London) ★★★★
Tom of Finland (aka Touko Laaksonen) gets his first solo public exhibition in the UK with Love and Liberation at the House of Illustration. Featuring iconic images as well as previously unseen drawings from Tom of Finland Foundation’s collection, the exhibition forms part of the ongoing #TOMs100 celebration of his birth. Forty works on paper... Continue Reading →
34th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival Highlights
The British Film Institute’s annual LGBTIQ+ film festival Flare is back this month with an exciting lineup of more than 50 feature films, including a few The Queer Review favourites. From March 18th-29th the festival will fill the BFI Southbank with queer cinema, discussions, parties and more. Things kick off with the Opening Night world... Continue Reading →
QTIPOC focus at Birmingham’s CineQ 2020 March 26-29
Birmingham's Queer film festival CineQ has announced the 2020 line-up with a focus on QTIPOC (Queer, Trans and Intersex People of Colour) films and perspectives. Running from March 26-29, Birmingham venues will be filled with films, parties, panels and discussions from a variety of perspectives. The festival opens with Portrait of Jason, the avant-guarde 1967... Continue Reading →
Events: The Vito Project returns with The Celluloid Closet 35mm screening & more at London’s Cinema Museum
One of our favourite London LGBTQ+ film and community events The Vito Project returns to the Cinema Museum next week with the first of three monthly screenings that have just been announced. The 2020 programme begins with a 25th anniversary screening of The Celluloid Closet on 35mm on January 26th, followed by a double bill... Continue Reading →
Evolve. Emerge. Fly. Sydney’s Mardi Gras Film Festival Announces 2020 Line Up
For the first time in its 27 year history, an Australian LGBTQ feature film will open Queer Screen's 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney. Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) is a Sydney-based rom-com focusing on a teenage lesbian love affair, looking at Australia's own civil rights movement. Starring Marta Dusseldorp (Stateless, Janet... Continue Reading →
PLEASURE PARK London Screening & Zine Launch Party
Baron Magazine and London's G-A-Y Bar host a screening of Matt Lambert's PLEASURE PARK and the launch party of the PLEASURE PARK zine, featuring photography and collages accompanying the film, on Sunday January 5th 2020 from 6pm. PLEASURE PARK is a visually stunning, sexually explicit and celebratory portrait of a group of friends and adult... Continue Reading →
MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Weekend at Anthology Film Archives Nov 23-24th
This weekend in New York, MIX NYC presents a weekend of Queer Experimental Film Programming at Anthology Film Archives over two evenings. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23rd: Program One: 7:15-8:30pm “Within There Runs Blood” presented by Eve Oishi and Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz This program represents the vision of two curators whose careers span twenty-five years, beginning with a... Continue Reading →
