UPDATE: Screens at the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival on Friday July 15th at 9:45pm at Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 and available to stream online July 16th 8am until July 18th at 8am. Writer-director Erich Rettstadt's (雷利) Tank Fairy—playing in SXSW 2022's Midnight Shorts section and nominated for the festival's... Continue Reading →
This Friday, March 11th sees the opening of the first in-person South by Southwest (SXSW) since 2019, running in Austin, Texas until Sunday, March 20th, with select films also screening online. We take a look at some the LGBTQ+ highlights in the sessions, music, and film lineups at the upcoming edition of the Conference and... Continue Reading →
Among the queer highlights at last month's SXSW Online 2021 was the short film Femme, by co-writers-directors Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman. The film stars I May Destroy You's Paapa Essiedu as Jordan, a femme queer man in London who leaves the safety of a night out clubbing with his friends and gets... Continue Reading →
As someone who has lived in Manhattan throughout the pandemic, the black and white shots of the vacant city streets and landmarks which open David Wexler's Disintegration Loops—world premiering at SXSW Online 2021—struck me as one of the most evocative works I've seen so far that captures a sense of what being here was like... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Wes Hurley's Potato Dreams of America, which received its world premiere at SXSW Online 2021, is the inventively told autobiopic of a gay Russian immigrant who falls in love with America as a child through catching pirate television broadcasts of 80s movies as the Iron Curtain falls and emigrates to Seattle when his mother... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Charli XCX: Alone Together is on Hulu and on-demand from Friday January 28th 2022. In the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, global pop star Charli XCX announced that she would write and record an entire new album, along with creating the visuals, from self-quarantine in her home in LA, while promising... Continue Reading →
4 Feet: Blind Date, which gave viewers the perspective of a teenage wheelchair user, won Best Narrative VR Film at SXSW 2019. It has since spawned 4 Feet High, a six-part Argentinian high school set made-for-television series and an accompanying four-part VR series, both of which world premiered at this year's Sundance, with the first... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Todd Stephens returns to his hometown, and the setting of his 1998 gay coming of age movie Edge of Seventeen—Sandusky, Ohio—for his latest feature Swan Song, which received its world premiere at SXSW Online today. Screen legend Udo Kier stars as Pat Pitsenbarger, a retired gay hairdresser living a monotonous existence in a hospital-like... Continue Reading →
In Mari Walker's captivating feature debut See You Then, which is currently receiving its world premiere at SXSW Online 2021 until Saturday March 20th, two former lovers, performance artist and teacher Naomi (Lynn Chen) and tech whizz Kris (Pooya Mohseni), are reunited more than a decade after they abruptly broke up and lost touch. In... Continue Reading →
I May Destroy You's Paapa Essiedu gives a captivating performance as the fiercely femme queer Londoner Jordan in Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman's gripping and unsettling short film Femme which world premiered at SXSW Online 2021 today as part of the festival's Narrative Shorts Competition. Beautifully dressed in a sparkly top and studded... Continue Reading →
