queertiques
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FIRST DAY for a transgender girl at High School @ HULU
Full credit to the Australian TV Channel ABC ME for both their insight and judgement for producing this excellent children’s TV mini series FIRST DAY about a transgender girl’s first year of high school. Originally an award winning short film, it stars transgender actor Evie Macdonald as Hannah, who must face the challenges that…
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The Iris Prize : The British ShortList
For new queer filmmakers . the Iris Prize is like The Holy Grail. With its £30000 prize money it continues to be the only LGBT+ short film prize in the world which allows the winner to make a new film. It all happens at a Festival of the same in Cardiff, Wales, which in…
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Matthias + Maxime : another superb queer drama from Xavier Dolan
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards…
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Metro Sexual : a queer comedy about a serious subject
Arriving on US screens (and in Canada too) this month is the latest comedy export from Down Under. Metro Sexual is a fast and furious low brow Australian sitcom TV web series that gets its laugh from an incessant stream of potty mouthed humor about body parts in distress . Set in Metropolitan Sexual…
