Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom the team that bought us ‘Shank’ the first winner of the Roger Walker-Dack Award for Emerging Artists in Queer Cinema comes this gritty prison drama about Jack, a convicted Priest, who all the other inmates round on because they wrongly assume he’s a pedophile. Already deserted by the Church and now totally alone he has to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his feature film debut Nick Corporon chose to co-write and direct a road movie with a difference. True having a lonely middle-aged gay man pay for the services of a young hustler to accompany him is hardly new, but the journey they undertake together makes this intriguing resourceful wee drama a very suspenseful edgy thriller. When Jonathan … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesRialto, the sophomore feature film from Scottish filmmaker Philip Mackie Burns was written by queer Irish playwright Mark O’Halloran who adapted from his own award-winning stage play ‘Trade’. Incidentally O’Halloran also wrote the script of the stunning film Viva which in 2015 was Ireland’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Film at the Academy … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWith performances and direction like this you really can make shorts that say it all with few words. This anthology of the longing search for company radiates emotion from the skin of its performers and the luminous situations they find themselves in. Lov Novios de mi Madres (All My Mother’s Lovers) In Los Novios … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis intriguing made-for-TV Australian drama directed by Jeffrey Walker is based on the real story of how Sydney’s famous LGBT Mardi Gras came into being. This tale of how a very marginalized community struggled to win acceptance and basic equal rights may be well known to its home audience but is probably news to the rest … Continue reading
