queertiques
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Every Act of Life
The celebrated 78-year-old playwright Terrence McNally has enjoyed such a packed life with his roller-coaster career and a love life that itself could be the stuff that dramas are made off, so it was a tough challenge for filmmaker Jeff Kaufman to squeeze it all into 90 so minutes the length of his new profile. The end result is…
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1985
The fourth feature from queer filmmaker Yen Tan is a surprising departure for him as it a sad remembrance of the impact of the AIDS pandemic on American families, from an era that was way before his time and far removed from where he grew up. As a whole debate continues about the need for movies about…
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Black Divaz
As part of the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, NITV an Australian TV Channel commissioned filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills to make Black Divaz. This totally exhilarating hour-long documentary followed six rather fabulous indigenous Drag Queens as they assembled to take part in the very first Miss First Nations Drag Queen competition. This…
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Beyond The Opposite Sex
In 2004 Executive Producer Bruce Hensel and his team made two documentaries called The Opposite Sex which were both screened on the Showtime Channel. Each film was a different story of two very different people who were in the throes of transitioning, both of whom had the added struggle of being part of conservative redneck families. Rene…
