2014
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Compared To What? : The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank.
When husband and wife filmmakers Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler first approached the Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts with the idea of making a documentary about him they just envisioned that it would simply cover his last year in Office prior to his retirement. They quickly discovered that there was a whole wealth of history and stories…
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Queerguru reviews Frédéric Tcheng’s excellent documentary DIOR AND I
Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LMVH took a year to decide on who to appoint as the new Creative Director of DIOR after the unceremonious firing of John Galliano for his very public display of anti-semitism (alleged). The interim in-house designer’s collection had been very poorly received so Arnault knew that he had to…
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Mala Mala
A chance encounter in a bar in Austin Texas with an eloquent drag queen was the impetus for filmmakers Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles to embark on a journey that would take them to Puerto Rico to explore the world of transgender people and drag queens. What they discovered and recorded in this fascinating new…
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LOVE CHLD
In 2010 a young South Korean couple were charged with manslaughter after their malnourished 3-month-old baby starved to death after they had abandoned her to go play online games at a cyber cafe for 12 hour stints. The Judge had been persuaded that their gaming addiction was technically an illness and made them not culpable…
