Queerguru reviews HAPPY CAMPERS a fascinating documentary about the death throes of a shabby trailer park

  Amy Nicholson‘s rather compelling new fly-on-the -wall documentary is about a particular piece of American life in its death throes. It’s all about a very shabby rundown trailer park In Chincoteague, Virginia and the lives of its blue-collared residents that have lived there  each summer for several decades..  Now this is to be their … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews HOLDING MOSES the profoundly moving of a queer single mother bonding with her severely disabled son

  Together queer filmmakers Jen Ranin and Rivkah Beth Medow founded Frankly Speaking Films in 2020 to produce media that centers strong LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people to increase visibility and spark change.  The first documentary that they co-directed was the award-winning Ahead of The Curve on Ranin’s wife Frances Steven who founded Curve Magazine, the … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews ‘HOW TO TELL A SECRET’ how millennials deal with HIV in a contemporary Ireland

  Over the past few years, QUEERGURU has sat through and reviewed 40 feature films that touch on HIV and/or AIDS.  The pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s totally devastated the LGBTQ+ community and became the single largest factor in reshaping our future.  As a queer media that prides itself in its mission to ensure … Continue reading

queerguru reviews I Am Not Your Negro

When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself.  This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted from directly from … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews “India’s 1st best Trans Model Agency”

    You are so made aware of the universality  of the subject matter of “India’s 1st best Trans Model Agency ‘right from the opening credits when you read the documentary has been financed from three difference sources …. one in Wales and one in Norway plus The British Council. This intriguing look into India’s Hijras. … Continue reading

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