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Exclusive Interview: Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman & executive producer Patrick Walters “there are infinite ways to be queer”

Recently named on the TIME100 NEXT list recognizing influential leaders in various fields, Alice Oseman is an author, illustrator, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the internationally bestselling LGBTQ+ teenage romance comic series Heartstopper. Alice is also the creator and showrunner of the much-loved Netflix adaptation, has written every episode to date and... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Oh, Mary! star Bianca Leigh on Cole Escola’s hit Broadway comedy “laughter is my oxygen”

For the last few months, Broadway's oldest continually operating legitimate theatre, the Lyceum, has reverberated with the raucous laughter of sell-out houses attending Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! Having made its award-winning debut downtown at the Lucille Lortel earlier this year, the irreverent, colourful—and very queer—reimagining of historical figures, centred around a petulant, heavy-drinking, frustrated cabaret... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Rez Ball filmmaker Sydney Freeland “it was really important that we were able to shoot on the Navajo reservation – there’s a texture & spirit to the land”

Over the last decade, Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer Sydney Freeland has forged an impressive film and television career centering marginalized characters and diverse voices. Earlier this year, Echo, the Marvel limited series that she directed and executive produced, premiered at number one on both Disney+ and Hulu. Back in 2014, her debut feature, Drunktown’s... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Misia Butler on his heroic trans character in Netflix’s Greek mythology series KAOS “I find it really empowering to see someone so strong in his identity”

Charlie Covell, creator of the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated The End Of The F***ing World, is about to unleash KAOS on Netflix: their eight-episode, bold, darkly comic, contemporary—and frequnetly queer—take on Greek mythology, launching Thursday, August 29th. Epic in scope, the series follows the steady unraveling of the cruel and capricious King of the Gods, Zeus... Continue Reading →

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Film Review: Crossing ★★★★

Writer-director-producer-co-editor Levan Akin's alluring fourth feature, Crossing, world premiered at the 2024 Berlinale where it won the Teddy jury prize, honouring the festival's best queer film, before going on to pick up more awards at Guadalajara, Sunny Bunny, and Sofia Pride. Following his 2019 gay coming-of-age drama And Then We Danced, and his recent directing... Continue Reading →

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