Effie Brown, Powerhouse Producer and Mentor of HBO’s Project Greenlight, was the Guest Speaker at the Evan Lawson Filmmakers brunch at #PIFF16 in June. Before she elucidated to the assembled crowd on ‘diversity in film’, she stopped by to talk to queerguru aka Roger Walker-Dack about her work in an hilarious interview that she thought would never ever see the light of day. How wrong she was!
This brief encounter was one of the most unexpected and joyous moments for queerguru in covering the Festival for P.T.V.
With genius comic actors sometimes pictures are so much better than words, so to mark the death of the gloriously funny Gene Wilder here are clips of two of queerguru’s favorite performances of the great man who gave us such joy. Naturally both are from Mel Brooks movies. Thank you so much
For his feature film debut Nick Corporon chose to co-write and direct a road movie with a difference. True having a lonely middle-aged gay man pay for the services of a young hustler to accompany him is hardly new, but the journey they undertake together makes this intriguing resourceful wee drama a very suspenseful edgy thriller. When Jonathan … Continue reading
As I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary. … Continue reading
Peruvian photographer Mariano Vivanco’s stunning new book ‘Portraits Nudes Flowers’ features highlights of his last ten years of work. This celebrated genius with the camera has been shooting with some of fashion’s major big hitters and in fact the foreword to this beautiful collection that includes some spectacularly sensuous nudes is by Domenico Dolce & … Continue reading
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