queertiques
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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…
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Girls Lost
Three 14-year-old girls who are inseparable best friends are always mercilessly picked on by all the bullies at their school. Considered outsiders by their classmates, Kim (Tuva Jagell0), Momo (Louise Nyvall) and Bella (Wilma Holm) the girls very much keep to themselves. One day Bella finds a very strange looking seed that she plants to…
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Teenage Kicks
Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head…
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The Joneses
Jehri Jones is a most remarkably resilient women. The outwardly cheery disposition of this 74 year-old-transgender Mississippi native is because she is quick to dismiss the struggle of her journey to establish and accept her own identity which didn’t start until she was in her 40’s, and was not completed until she could finally afford the gender…
