queertiques
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Cola De Mono
It’s an unbearably hot Santiago Christmas Eve 1986 in those pre-tech days before cellphones were invented and when families still had to talk to each other. However Borja (Cristóbal Rodríguez-Costabal) ‘s family don’t. Well not very much. He’s a precocious teenager about to turn 17 and obsessed with movies especially the stack of obscure…
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Denial
When filmmaker Derek Hallquist started his documentary Denial it focused on his father David the CEO of Vermont Electric Corp and his impassioned views on climate change and transitioning the industry to adequately deal with an ever changing world. Hallquist Snr was so committed to renewable energy and converting the Grid to sources of…
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Little Miss Westie
As part of Transgender Awareness Week, Queerguru reviews LITTLE MISS WESTIE an extraordinary new documentary by Joy E Reed and Dan Hunt that has just had its World Premiere at DOC NYC. It’s the story of the McCarthy family in Connecticut where both of their children are transgender. The older sibling Luca came out…
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F(l)ag Football
It is impossible not to get swept up in the exuberance and sheer passion of the footballers in Seth Greenleaf’s rather exhilarating documentary. It’s the story of how gay flag football went from a few guys casually playing together some 20 years to a full fledged league of some 26 teams throughout the US…
