Category: Interviews

The Queer Review Interviews

Exclusive Interview: Bouchra filmmakers Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani – “there was a desire to make a film that the queer Moroccan community could claim”

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York filmmakers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki collaborated with voice actors and composers to create 2 Lizards, a captivating surrealist eight-part animated series. Originally released on Bennani’s Instagram account, the episodes focused on two anthropomorphic lizard best friends as they experienced the isolation, uncertainty and yearning... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Cato Kusters on the real-life love story & marriage equality activism that inspired her debut feature Julian

Belgian filmmaker Cato Kusters makes her powerfully affecting feature debut with an adaptation of Fleur Pierets’ acclaimed 2019 book, Julian, a memoir of love, activism, and grief. In 2017, Fleur (Nina Meurisse) and her wife Julian P. Boom (Laurence Roothooft) launched 22 The Project, a performance art piece in which the couple planned to get... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) filmmaker Bretten Hannam – “Two-Spirit people have always been here & we’re not going anywhere”

Bretten Hannam is a Two-Spirit L’nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), Canada where they were raised. They wrote and directed the short films, New Skin, Puppy, Deep End, and Elmiteskuatl, and the features North Mountain and Wildhood, which was one of the 2SLGBTQ+ highlights at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Hannam... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke on his Cannes Award-winning A Useful Ghost – “I wanted to bring many dimensions of queer characters into the film”

Following its world premiere at Cannes, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's startlingly original and delectably queer debut feature A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka) made its North American premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Hugh Sheehan on his award-winning podcast Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 – “we must never forget these queer histories”

In this politically regressive era in the United States and beyond, it is especially vital that LGBTQ+ history be recorded and shared, enabling us to find context, empowerment and guidance in the narratives of our queer and trans forebearers. Recognizing that necessity is composer, sound designer, writer and audio producer Hugh Sheehan, whose exquisitely crafted... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Daniel Waters on writing “dark, f***ed up Christmas movie” Batman Returns

"I'm a queer icon, who knew?!" Jokes screenwriter Daniel Waters as he discusses the strong queer following for Batman Returns and Heathers. Waters is also known for the 2032-set sci-fi Demolition Man, which predicted a President Schwarzenegger, and the under-appreciated screwball action-comedy Hudson Hawk starring Sandra Bernhard as the villainous Minerva Mayflower opposite Bruce Willis'... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Billions & Elsbeth star Daniel K. Isaac – “I became much freer as an actor once I came out & accepted who I was”

Actor and writer Daniel K. Isaac is known for giving smart, nuanced, and playful performances and has a quietly commanding presence on stage and screen that draws the viewer in. Let's face it, those dreamboat good looks and that killer smile don't hurt either. Alongside creating his own work, such as his playwriting debut Once... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Kim David Smith on A Wery Weimar Christmas – “it’s all about being too poor for presents, too atheist for Jesus & too naughty for Santa”

Award-winning cabaret star and actor Kim David Smith returns to New York's Club Cumming on Sunday, December 14th for his fabulously queer annual holiday celebration, A Wery Weimar Christmas, courting festive cheer amid the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920s Berlin. Featuring the original holiday tunes "A Wery Merry Weimar Christmas," and "Don't Let Krampus... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Jack Ferver on their latest dance-theatre work My Town – “this piece has a lot of mystery even to me”

Writer, choreographer, and performer Jack Ferver's genre-defying performances interrogate and indict psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of gender, sexuality, and power struggles. Weaponizing spectacle and stark naturalism, character and self, humour and horror, their performance practice is rooted in the shattering effects of trauma, and the numerous selves that can arise from... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Charles Moriarty on his latest photography book BROCK – “it’s about chasing your dreams & finding your space in the world”

Featuring more than 110 stunning images taken over four years, photographer Charles Moriarty's latest book, the limited-edition BROCK, is an intimate portrait of actor and bodybuilder, Brock Yurich, as he chases his dreams over several years. The most recent photographs, shot earlier this year, follow Brock home to Los Angeles and onto the set of... Continue Reading →

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