Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOne of our main driving forces in QUEERGURU reviewing so many new indie movies is the sheer hope that once in a blue moon, you come across a new fresh, and extraordinary voice. One that has such a passion and drive that makes all the hours/days/months in those screening rooms all worthwhile. Paul Rice … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis feature film debut from Brazilian filmmaker Mauro Carvalho is an utterly charming tale of young love that failed to run its course once real life got in its way. It is told to us by one half of the couple Diego (Thiago Cazado) some years later as he reflects back on what life was like before … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques16 year old Martin Blanco claims to have something in his eye, so Sebastian his High School Swimming Coach whisks him out of Class and takes him to the Eye Hospital Emergency Room. The doctors give him the all clear, so the teacher offers to drive him home. School is over for the day, and Martin realises … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 2012 when his father passed newbie filmmaker Arshad Khan was working on putting together his first fiction feature, but having gone through a wealth of archival home videos in preparing for the memorial service, Khan slowly came to realize that he wanted, and needed instead to tell his own story of growing up gay … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThere has been a wonderful plethora of LGBT films and TV programs to mark the 50th Anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in the U.K. that have yet to make their way across the Pond. One has, however, and has just opened in the US and is currently playing the LGBT Film Festival … Continue reading
