queertiques
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What”s The Matter With Gerald?
Openly gay filmmaker Matt Riddlehoover’s portfolio that includes seven feature films and a couple of shorts are all good examples of boy-lite cinema. They are quirky, funny, easy on the eye stories of contemporary gay men just trying to get their act together. The latest one in this vein reunites writer/director/producer, and sometime actor, Riddlehoover…
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Outings
This new Brit LGBT edgy TV series that went straight to DVD that tackles the life of group of friends in the northern UK town of Manchester is worlds away from HBO’s LGBT series Loving set in San Francisco featuring a group of rather sophisticated urbanites. Outings bills itself as a cross between as Queer as…
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Rara
When Chilean lawyer Paula (Mariana Loyola) divorces her husband Victor (Daniel Munoz), her new partner Lia (Agustina Muñoz) moves in to share her home in this small conservative town. One day Paula is summed for a meeting with the school Principal after her 8 year old daughter Catalina (Emilia Ossandon) had made a drawing of…
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Hungry
Filmmaker Patty Ivins new documentary Hungry tracked three really inspiring women chefs for six months as they all went through crucial periods for their own restaurant businesses. They, and the other industry experts that Ivins interviewed set the scene with facts and figures proving how difficult it still is for women chefs even at the…
