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HUMP! Film Festival : a new kind of porn
The annual HUMP! Film Festival the brainchild of LGBT activist & journalist Dan Savage that is currently touring all over the U.S. has been bringing audiences a new kind of porn since 2005. It features short dirty movies—each less than five minutes—all created by people who aren’t porn stars but want to be one for a…
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queerguru’s pick of P Town Women’s Week
queerguru LOVES P Town’s Womensweek and so we are currently working on previews of what we think are some of the highlights this year. We have an exclusive interview with Donna Deitch the director of the cult classic lesbian movie ‘Desert Hearts’ that is celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary with a brand new restoration this…
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I Dream In Another Language
Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez…
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Barbara : an iconic French Diva
queerguru’s Parisian correspondent has just sent us news about a stunning biopic that is the latest sensation in movie theaters over there. Barbara is the story of the late famous chanteuse whose songs included “L’Aigle noir” which sold 1 million copies in just 12 hours in the 1960’s. She cut a very dramatic figure, a tall…
