The latest Edition of the annual Provincetown Film Society & Festival has Re-Imagined itself in the midst of the Covid 19 Lockdown. Asides from two nights of screenings at Welfleet Drive-In Theater most of the program with screen VIRTUALLY ONLINE.
The incredibly talented actress Mya Taylor who burst onto our screen with her sensational award-winning performance in Tangerine 5 years ago, is back and starring in Thom Fitzgerald ‘s delightful queer feel-good drama Stage Mother The Movie. Provincetown Film Society & Festival are not only screening the film as part of their Virtual Festival but have given Mya their prestigious New Wave Award. Queerguri caught with Mya to talk about this and more.
N.B she has such an infectious humor and a really wonderful zest for life, she will make you so want to see the movie ……
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Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado was a global phenomenon. Dressed like a latino Liberace he was one of the most celebrated and beloved figures on Spanish-language television — an extravagant, outrageous, endlessly positive, gender non-conforming who dispensed horoscopes to daily TV audience that reached 150 million viewers at his peak.
One the eve of the launch on Netflix of MUCHO MUCHO an affectionate documentary on Mercado, QUEERGURU talked to the film’s co-director Kareem Tabsch about his fascination with this larger–than-life man,
The interview was filmed by Dan Desjardins at @Hôtel Gaythering in Miami Beach