Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis new documentary having its World Premiere at Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival sets about exploring the rather blurred lines of gender and sexuality of a rather extraordinary London based Malayan Chinese actor/producer called Chowee Leow aka Zoe who is a self-professed gender-illusionist. Initially listening to interviews with Lee and friends was somewhat confusingly as no-one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn a rather remote region of East Germany near the Polish Border Jakob the young newbie village Policeman is trying to dissuade a wolf from frightening all the locals by leaving it bags of fresh meat deep in the forest. Why he should think that would deter the wolf makes very little sense, but then … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe’re not sure if young American filmmaker Yony Leyser based in Berlin is aiming to be a modern day Christopher Isherwood with his first feature that sets out to show a slice of the contemporary edgy queer scene in Berlin, but he obviously used the great man of letters as his inspiration. Leyser’s improvised story … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTrans Filmmaker Sam Feder packs an awful lot of information into the 100 mins of this excellent new documentary Disclosure. Somehow he makes it totally compelling and not the least bit stuffy, and we were shocked to discover in fact how as gay men, we really knew so little about our brothers and sisters … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Fernando Garcia Ortega was a young boy in Garibaldi, Mexico City in the 1970’s his pushy mother got him into the movies. It was tough being a child actor and filming a scene in his first big break the Director stopped the cameras and asked for more reality in the mob fight that was … Continue reading