Caer (Caught) is an extraordinary film that takes an unusual approach to highlight a very serious problem. Australian-based filmmaker Nicola Mai’s remarkable hybrid documentary is about drawing our attention to the problematic situation facing trans-Latina sex workers in Queens NY. Mai chooses to do this by merging fiction and documentary, and this way he … Continue reading
North by Current is a documentary about family reconciliation and premiered very successfully at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the inconclusive death of his young niece Kalla, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown during the bleak winter of 2015. He was originally preparing to make a film about a … Continue reading
It seems like so many countries have undergone a dark period in their history when they undertook merciless witch-hunts against the LGBTQ population. In the US it started in 1953 under Eisenhower, and what became known as The Lavendar Scare lasted some four decades. In that period thousands of people lost their livelihoods and … Continue reading
Brian Vincent’s fascinating, albeit somewhat chaotic, documentary on the queer East Village painter Ed Brezinski, is a great addition to other profiles of some of his peers that were released recently. Firstly there was Chris McKim’s incisive documentary of the exceptionally talented artist David Wojanarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992 just 37 years old. Then … Continue reading
When Pete Buttigieg campaigned to be the Democratic Candidate for President of the USA in 2020, he somehow managed to keep most of us in the dark about who he really was/is. This intensely private man whose sexuality made his candidature so unique and unwittingly such a major focus of his platform still remains … Continue reading
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