"There's a father and a son on a horse, they're running from something and they're outlaws". That was the first image that came to filmmaker Anna Kerrigan when she began writing the screenplay for her Tribeca and Outfest award-winning feature Cowboys. Joe, beautifully played by newcomer Sasha Knight, is a young trans boy whose gender... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Algonquin Two-Spirit trans musician Kìzis on her new album Tidibà bide / Turn “there’s a journey that I went on of sisterhood & empowerment”
Montreal-based Algonquin Two-Spirit trans musician Kìzis' monumental new album Tidibà bide / Turn : Four Spirits in Motion is released this Friday February 12th. Comprising thirty six tracks and spanning over three and half hours, the album was composed and produced in Canada, the UK, Germany and Peru and features over fifty collaborators including Cub Sport's... Continue Reading →
Mardi Gras Film Festival 2021 Review: Transformistas ★★★★
If you need a reminder that trans women and drag queens are the true pioneers of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the world, look no further than Chad Hahne’s documentary Transformistas, the story of a group of drag performers who defied the law to build a community in 90s communist Cuba. The film will receive its Australian... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Fangirls (Seymour Centre, Sydney) ★★★1/2
After a hit debut run at Belvoir Theatre in 2020, the new musical Fangirls has made its way to the larger Seymour Center in Sydney to bring some preemptive post-pandemic music-mania to the stage. The tale of three schoolgirls and their obsession with the boyband True Connection and lead singer Harry (yes, you may notice... Continue Reading →
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! launches queer photography magazine
Last week saw the launch of The Little Black Gallery's new queer photography magazine BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!. The collectors edition Volume 1 features the work of ten photographers from ten countries and adds to the growing BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! art platform "to promote queer and gay photography", which now represents more than 60 photographers from 24 countries including... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Barbara Sukowa & filmmaker Filippo Meneghetti on their Golden Globe nominated lesbian love story Two of Us (Deux) “society is obsessed with youth & beauty & I have a huge problem with that”
One of the queer highlights at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where writer-director Filippo Meneghetti's debut narrative feature had its world premiere, Two of Us (Deux) went on to a successful international festival run including playing the BFI London Film Festival and Outfest, and winning the Outstanding First Feature Award at last year's Frameline.... Continue Reading →
Sundance 2021 Film Festival: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair ★★1/2
Jane Schoenbrun's unsettling genre-defying feature debut We're All Going to the World's Fair, which world premiered at Sundance, captures much of the loneliness, isolation, and absorption in our screens that so many of us have experienced over the last year, though it was actually conceived and shot in pre-Covid times. As the film opens, we... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ films Flee & Ma Belle, My Beauty among Sundance 2021 award winners
Last night's Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt on great form coming live from his home screening room, saw CODA, Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), and Hive all receive multiple honours, with wins for festival favourite LGBTQ+ features Flee (The World Cinema Grand... Continue Reading →
Sundance 2021 Film Review: Weirdo Night ★★★★
Thanks to the programmers of Sundance's New Frontiers section for giving me the best night out I've had since last March (without having to leave my apartment or get out of my pyjamas) with creator-writer-star Jibz Cameron and director Mariah Garnett's Weirdo Night. Acknowledging, but not dwelling on, the lack of audience in the room... Continue Reading →
Sundance 2021 Film Review: The Sparks Brothers ★★★★
UPDATE: The Sparks Brothers is released in US theaters Friday June 18th, 2021. BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker Edgar Wright, known for his adept and creative use of music in movies like Baby Driver and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, has devoted several years to making his feature documentary debut about his favourite band, Sparks. Whether you're... Continue Reading →
