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Check It @ #PIFF16
‘Check It’ is a powerful and somewhat shocking new documentary about a ‘gang’ of gay and transgender kids in one of Washington DC’s most notoriously tough neighborhoods who collectively decide to fight back against all the physical and mental abuse that is heaped on them as they strive to simply survive. A couple of adult…
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Summertime @ #PIFF16
queerguru reviews Summertime for PTV. When a closeted farm girl meets a vivacious womens-libber in Paris in the 1970’s, it makes for a heady (and very sensuous) summer that neither will forget… directed by Catherine Corsini and starring the enigmatic Cécile De France. The movie is playing at Provincetown International Film Festival #PIF16
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Ang Lee is Coming To P.Town
The multi-Academy Award Winner writer/director Ang Lee is coming to P Town where he is about to be honored with the Film Festival’s prestigious 2016 ‘Filmmaker on the Edge’Award to add to his rather packed mantlepiece. Amongst Lee’s stunning body of work are two LGBT all-time favorites The Wedding Banquet and the superlative Brokeback Mountain (the latter…
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Out Of Iraq
Grab at least two boxes of Kleenex to watch this new documentary of a heartbreaking love story between an Iraqi soldier and an Iraqi military translator that always looks like it could end badly at any moment with either of the men being killed simply for being gay. The newsreels are full each day of so…
