2017
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Beach Rats
It’s refreshing to find that filmmakers still have new LGBT coming-out stories that are fresh and throw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. For her sophomore feature writer/director Eliza Hittman sets her story in Brooklyn where 19 year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is struggling hard to find his own identity, sexual…
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David France talks about HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
When filmmaker David France was at #PIFF2016 with his new movie The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson we seized the moment to also talk to him about How To Survive A Plague his Oscar Awards Nominated documentary recognized as THE seminal work on the AIDS pandemic, and which is really essential viewing for the entire #LGBTQ community and beyond. The documentary is NOW available on Netflix & Amazon.com and…
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Provincetown sans People
Brooklyn filmmaker Eddie Shore a founding member of the filmmaking collective #ColorChart talks to queerguru about his new short film Cold Storage a documentary on how the seaside resort of #Provincetown becomes almost a ghost town in the winter. The movie won Best New England Short Film Award at #PIFF217. The interview with Roger Walker-Dack for ‘queerguru reports‘ was filmed by Heather Reed & Hussein Wentz…
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Stanley Stellar : INTO THE LIGHT
The legendary Brooklyn-born photographer Stanley Stellar, who had been a contemporary of Robert Mapplethorpe, is about to publish a new magnificent epic book of his work that may be his finest yet. He has been chronicling the continual gay scene in N.Y. for the past 50 years, and INTO THE LIGHT is a fascinating…
