Political Animals is a brand new documentary that tells the remarkable story of four extraordinary women who were the very first openly gay legislators in California. These brave pioneers had to contend with fierce and hostile opposition that often got very personal and nasty, but nevertheless managed to author Bills that started to change the lives of LGBT people and our community at large. It’s a compelling story that not just details an important part of recent LGBT history, but reminds us how so very indebted we are so are to these phenomenal and selfless visionary women.
This truly wonderful film is a Spotlight Selection, and also one of our Top Picks, for the upcoming Provincetown International Film Festival #PIFF. We are particularly psyched about this as before the Screening filmmaker Jonah Markowitz and one of the movie’s ‘stars’ Senator Carole Migden will be making tracks to PTV’s studio to talk to us about their very astonishing story.
Here is queerguru’s review of Political Animals for P.T.V. and keep watching this space to see our interview very soon.
Filmmaker Aaron Brookner set off to find the lost negatives of Howard Brookner’s 1983 definitive documentary of William S Burroughs. and in the course of his investigations discovered so much more about this dynamic and influential queer filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1989 aged 34 years who was also his Uncle Howard. This compelling documentary was one of the best LGBT movies to surface at the Sundance Film Festival and is now one of our TOP PICKS playing at the Provincetown Film Festival.
Here as part of the coverage of PIFF16 that queerguru is doing on behalf of Provincetown TV (PTV) is both our review of UNCLE HOWARD and part of an interview we had with Aaron Brookner via Skype.
RWD reviews SING STREET written and directed by Irish filmmaker John Carney whose breakthrough movie was ‘Once’ its the very likable tale of a young Dublin schoolboy in the 1980’s who started a Band just so that he could ask a girl out.
RWD reviews VIVA : the compelling story of one young Cuban gay man struggling with his impoverished existence and coping with the sudden return of his long-lost homophobic father in dilapidated Havana and who found his salvation in performing. Submitted for a Best Foreign Film Oscar Nomination : this is one of the best LGBT movies of the year.
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is a brand new documentary that tells the remarkable story of four extraordinary women who were the very first openly gay legislators in California. These brave pioneers had to contend with fierce and hostile opposition that often got very personal and nasty, but nevertheless managed to author Bills that started to change the lives of LGBT people and our community at large. It’s a compelling story that not just details an important part of recent LGBT history, but reminds us how so very indebted we are so are to these phenomenal and selfless visionary women.
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