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The Iris Prize : The British ShortList
For new queer filmmakers . the Iris Prize is like The Holy Grail. With its £30000 prize money it continues to be the only LGBT+ short film prize in the world which allows the winner to make a new film. It all happens at a Festival of the same in Cardiff, Wales, which in…
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Matthias + Maxime : another superb queer drama from Xavier Dolan
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards…
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
News today from the Venice Film Festival is that a new doc from queer Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino called Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams has been brought by Sony Pictures Classic. It’s the colorful tale of how Ferragamo an impoverished cobbler from Naples left his home in Italy to go to Hollywood to seek fame and…
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Metro Sexual : a queer comedy about a serious subject
Arriving on US screens (and in Canada too) this month is the latest comedy export from Down Under. Metro Sexual is a fast and furious low brow Australian sitcom TV web series that gets its laugh from an incessant stream of potty mouthed humor about body parts in distress . Set in Metropolitan Sexual…
