2020
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Sydney’s Queer Screen Film Fest : on more screens than ever
The world outbreak of COVID has little to dampen the spirits and efforts of Queer Film Festivals which may have adjusted to lots of Virtual Screenings but are still packing their programs with exciting new films. Plus for the first time you can see most of them from the comfort of your own ……
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FIRST DAY for a transgender girl at High School @ HULU
Full credit to the Australian TV Channel ABC ME for both their insight and judgement for producing this excellent children’s TV mini series FIRST DAY about a transgender girl’s first year of high school. Originally an award winning short film, it stars transgender actor Evie Macdonald as Hannah, who must face the challenges that…
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Matthias + Maxime : another superb queer drama from Xavier Dolan
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards…
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
News today from the Venice Film Festival is that a new doc from queer Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino called Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams has been brought by Sony Pictures Classic. It’s the colorful tale of how Ferragamo an impoverished cobbler from Naples left his home in Italy to go to Hollywood to seek fame and…
