2020
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The Glorias : 4 Actors try to step into Gloria Steinem shoes
Theater/film director Julie Taymor adapted Gloria Steinem’s memoir My Life On The Road to make this ambitious and overly biopic on one of the US’s leading feminists. Using 4 different actors playing the woman herself (and an appearance by Ms Steinem at the end) the screen was awash with Glorias that Taymor even juxtapositioned…
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The Strong Ones : a powerful queer Chilean love story
For his debut feature film Chilean writer/director Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo adapted his own short film San Cristabel which won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2015. It is a beautifully executed queer love story that is a near perfect as it could be. Lucas (Samuel González) has just won a scholarship to…
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Valentina : a (happy) trans coming out story
Valentina is a very impressive feature film debut from Brazilian writer/director Cássio Pereira dos Santos that tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a transgender teenager. It starts with teenage Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) being unable to get into a night club with her friends because her official ID card still lists her with her male…
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See Each Other. Save Trans Lives
‘ The Human Rights Campaign believes that 2020 is likely to become the deadliest year for violence against trans and gender non-conforming people since HRC began collecting data in 2013. Already at least 27 trans and gender non-conforming people were violently killed so far this year. So they have have teamed up with WarnerMedia for…
