Queerguru talks with PAGE HURWITZ creator/director of OUTSTANDING : A Comedy Revolution @ PTown Film Festival

    OUTSTANDING: A COMEDY REVOLUTION is probably the most joyous celebration of the queer community we will see on our screens this Pride Month. Directed by filmmaker/comedian Page Hurwitz, the producing partner of queer comic Wanda Sykes, this Netflix documentary very incisively explores the contributions that stand up comics have made to the growth … Continue reading

Queerguru talks with Samyuktha Vijayan about their remarkable filmmaking debut BLUE SUNSHINE

    BLUE SUNSHINE is a remarkable film . The debut film from Indian filmmaker Samyuktha Vijayan who wrote, directed and starred in this captivating new drama, that lays out a story of transitioning that is refreshingly unsensationalized.  Based on her own journey Vijayan’s tale is powerfully uplifting and although it doesn’t beg us for … Continue reading

Queerguru talks with the charismatic queer artist CARL HOPGOOD about how his art mirrors his life

    Like Queerguru’s own Editor, CARL HOPGOOD, is a dispaced Brit. He studied at the (legendary) Goldsmiths College in London, and after two solo shows in Mayfair, he ended up in LA inspired by David Hockney’s and his (very homoerotic) A Bigger Splash. It’s a long way from his birthplace in Wales but it … Continue reading

Queerguru talks with the writers of KISS, MARRY KILL a remarkable queer prison romance based on a true story

      This new UK drama is based on a remarkable true story that we first found very hard to believe  It is the tale of Jay and Paul who are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Kiss Marry Kill is an electrifying … Continue reading

queerguru talks to Daphne Pinkerson about CLASS DIVIDE

queerguru talks to Daphne Pinkerson producer of a new HBO Documentary directed by Marc Levin called CLASS DIVIDE about class division and hyper-gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing. Filmed by Amy Davies for P.T.V. at Provincetown International Film Festival #PIFF16 http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/class-divide/index.html

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