queertiques
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Music Triumphs Homophobia : an inspiring documentary about the Boston Gay Mens Chorus ambitious outreach program
“Music Triumphs Homophobia,” is a new documentary written and directed by Craig Coogan and Michael Willer that will probably make you rethink your opinion of Gay Men’s Choruses Until recently Coogan was the executive director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and Willer has long served the chorus as its videographer and their film recounts…
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Queerguru reviews Welby Ings debut feature film PUNCH a compelling coming-of-age drama from New Zealand
The feature film debut from writer/director Welby Ings, an Academy Award Nominee for his short film Boy, is this very compelling coming-of-age story that packs a real punch. Set in rural New Zealand and starring Brit import Tim Roth it’s a tale of how small-town homophobia which combined with racism can have explosive…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Laura Poitras “brilliant award winning documentary” ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed is a brilliant, award-winning, documentary following the life of photographer Nan Goldin. We are taken from her childhood through to her current activism in bringing down the Sackler Family, the pharmaceutical dynasty largely responsible for the opioid epidemic’s huge death toll. 500,000 dead so far in the US…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES @ Queer Screen – Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney
In 1993, a group of queer Sydney filmmakers, students, and supporters approached Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to establish an independent organization whose focus would be queer film and screen culture. This organization was Queer Screen. (One of those pioneer filmmakers was Stephen Cummins who died in 1994, and now is…
