2020
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Elska Goes Down Under : and falls for the real local men
Elska Magazine has finally gone Down Under. It’s latest issue is from Sydney Australia one of the gayest cities in the world and it totally decimates the myth that all the men there look like bronzed buff bikinied lifeguards on Bondi Beach! True to form Elksa’s Editor & Photographer Liam Campbell went out of…
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Goodbye Seventies : the latest film from Todd Verow
There is an uneasy space in cinema where homages to bad 70s movies sit. The cliches of stilted dialogue, dodgy camera angles, arthouse pretentiousness and grainy visuals can hardly be celebrated without employing them. And doing so feels like double dipping back into a garbage can we were all glad to empty. Todd Verow…
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The Unlikely Story of The Lesbians of First Friday
This is a very personal story for filmmaker Kathryn L Beranich as she was part of a small group of lesbians in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia who socialised together in the 1980’s. There were huge feminist movements elsewhere in the USA but for the most part these mainly white privileged closeted women…
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The Queen of Paris : and may she reign for ever
This delightful French TV mini series THE QUEEN OF PARIS (aka Clément, reine de la nuit) directed by Holy Fatma and Anne Flore Trichilo is the story of 30 year chemist called Clément. When his working day finishes this disarmingly charming young man transforms into Veronika a much beloved drag queen that performs with…