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Mother Knows Best wins the £30,000 Iris Prize
Swedish filmmaker Mikael Bundsen has just won the 2017 Iris Prize, Cardiff’s International LGBT Short Film Prize. This prestigious Award now referred the being part of the ‘Gay Oscars’, comes with a massive £30,000, thanks to the generosity of The Michael Bishop Foundation. The prize money will allow Bundsen to make a new short…
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The Prom King 2010 gets Crowned
Congratulations to Christopher Schaap for winning the prestigious Best Feature Award at the Iris Prize Festival for his debut movie Prom King, 2010 : here is our interview from earlier this year just after we met at OUTshine Film Festival in #Miami
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PEKKA STRANG talks about being gay icon TOM OF FINLAND
Even though Tom of Finland’s homoerotic art of beefed up masculine men is known and loved by almost the entire global LGBT community, very little is known about them man who created them. That is all about to change with the arrival of new film from award-winning Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski that tells the…
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Forgotten Man
This intriguing wee drama is the feature film debut of Canadian writer/director Arran Shearing and its main attribute is that it is a wonderful visual look at London’s East End. It’s a drama about a drama that gets a little messy along the way but still has enough fine points to recommend it. It’s…
