Peccadillo Pictures, UK-based major film producer and distributor of queer cinema. has a SOFA CLUB that brings international filmmakers into your weekly with specially hosted live Q & A’s
Created during the first Covid lockdown as a means of continuing regular communication with its audience, Peccadillo Sofa Club has developed that engagement further with more diverse screenings, supported by the BFI Audience Fund.
Each week, audiences across the world are encouraged to watch a drama or documentary simultaneously online, interacting on social media before the film’s director takes part in a post-screening Q&A via YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. And if you have a VPN app you can watch them wherever you live around the globe
13th FEBRUARY
SUBLIME with Argentinian director Mariano Baisin and stars Martin Miller and Teo Inama Chiabrando. In a small coastal town, 16-year-old Manuel plays in a band with his best friends and shares an unbreakable bond with Felipe, who he’s known since childhood. Manuel is also dating Azul, but he begins to feel something unexpected when it comes to their first time together, and it makes him see things in a brand-new light and tests his relationship.
Hosted by Chris New: https://youtube.com/live/Tkvzo-7NRs8
22nd FEBRUARY
FIFTY YEARS LEGAL documentary, with director Simon Napier-Bell and a number of LGBTQ activists
From music mogul to film director, Simon Napier-Bell (previously manager of The Yardbirds, T Rex, WHAM! and George Michael) has been pivotal to so much of popular culture over the past 50 years.
Simon has gathered together some of the nation’s much-loved personalities including Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Elton John, Matt Lucas, Stephen K Amos, Derek Jacobi and Stephen Fry, to make 50 YEARS LEGAL; a documentary of historical and personal accounts that relate to key landmarks in the landscape of LGBT culture.
P.S. And the really good news is that if you miss any week’s show you can still find it on You Tube
E.G. GATEWAYS GRIND King’s Road, the swinging 60s? Vivienne Westwood pioneering punk fashion? One notable establishment in this enclave of history that’s often forgotten about is Gateways, London’s longest-surviving lesbian club. Alongside a host of its patrons over the years, Sandi Toksvig highlights the legacy of the club from its original owner, who won it in a poker game, to its blossoming into a hot-spot and safe space for lesbian life. From its signature green door to the risque dance move that gives this film its name, Gateways was a crucial part of London’s queer history. In this charming and informative film, it’s celebrated in all its glory. Watch HERE
