Following its award-winning world premiere at Sundance in January, directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s outstanding feature The Stroll went on to open London's prestigious LGBTQ+ film festival BFI Flare, and last week the filmmakers were recognized with the John Schlesinger Award for Best Director of a Documentary at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Rich,... Continue Reading →
Sundance 2023 Film Review: The Stroll ★★★★★
Directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's outstanding feature The Stroll, received its world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, going on the win that section's Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision. It tells the collective history of the transgender women of colour who worked "the stroll"—a section of... Continue Reading →
Pioneers of Queer Cinema retrospective continues with Zackary Drucker, Rob Epstein & John Cameron Mitchell in-person
The landmark Pioneers of Queer Cinema retrospective, presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive, IndieCollect, and Outfest, continues in Los Angeles this weekend, with two nights of free screenings and in-person conversations with filmmaker Zackary Drucker, Barbara Hammer's widow, Florrie Burke, Oscar-winner Rob Epstein, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator, actor and filmmaker... Continue Reading →
Pioneers of Queer Cinema – a landmark retrospective presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, IndieCollect & Outfest February 18th – March 28th 2022
Friday, February 18th 2022 sees the start of a landmark retrospective, Pioneers of Queer Cinema, with free in-person screenings across 12 nights in Los Angeles, presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive, IndieCollect, and Outfest. This diverse survey spans seven decades and comprises 33 works including documentaries, narrative, and experimental features and shorts, drawing... Continue Reading →
The Queer Review 2021 – LGBTQ+ highlights of the year
With the end of this challenging year in sight, we asked some friends of The Queer Review, including prominent creators, performers, artists, and activists to share the LGBTQ+ culture or events that sustained, stimulated, or inspired them in 2021. The eclectic list features two deserving mentions for a Spanish-language limited TV series that was released... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ highlights at Sundance 2022
UPDATE: January 5th 2022, Sundance announced that the Festival’s in-person Utah elements will be moving online. The Festival will begin Thursday January 20th 2022 as planned with screening schedule adjustments to be announced to account for an online only schedule. The seven satellite partners will host screenings for their local communities from January 28th-30th 2022. With... Continue Reading →
Outfest’s 5th annual Trans & Non-binary summit sets a hopeful & determined tone for the future “we can create power together”
On the last full day of programming at Outfest LA 2021 on Saturday August 21st, the world's largest LGBTQ+ film festival centered trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming storytellers with its fifth annual Trans and Non-Binary Summit with a rich and exciting lineup of events at the Directors Guild of America. The event opened with Kieran... Continue Reading →
Genre-bending trans horror comedy series Spookable in final days of crowdfunding campaign
Filmmakers Marval A Rex and Jonathan Andre Culliton are in the final days of their Seed and Spark Crowdfunding Campaign for Spookable, a trans, genre-bending horror comedy series, executive produced by Zackary Drucker (Transparent, The Lady and the Dale). Spookable tells the story of two transgender best friends, Sean (Marval A Rex) and Tahmina (Alexandra Grey), whose vacation in the woods turns into... Continue Reading →
Recognized / Recognizability: LGBTQ+ Photo Archives & History – ONE Archives Foundation virtual panel April 7th
ONE Archives Foundation presents an online panel discussion on LGBTQ+ photography, history, and archives, Recognized / Recognizability: LGBTQ Photo Archives and History, moderated by Kaucyila Brooke. Taking place on April 7th at 5pm PT, the virtual panel will bring together Neal Baer, Zackary Drucker, Texas Isaiah, Kang Seung Lee, and Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell.... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Zackary Drucker on co-directing HBO’s Elizabeth Carmichael docu-series The Lady and the Dale “I identify as a queer heretic & a freak, I’ve never wanted to pander to respectable society & Liz embodies that too”
Multimedia artist Zackary Drucker has performed and exhibited her work internationally at museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA. She is the Emmy-nominated producer of the docu-series This Is Me, which explores personal stories of trans experience, and... Continue Reading →