Tag: BFI Flare
Top Ten Picks at London’s BFI FLARE Film Festival
It’s almost time for the 39th Edition of BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival which is the biggest of its kind in Europe. It has a wonderfully eclectic mix of films spread over 10 days that covers the entire LGBTQ spectrum with its truely inclusive program. Queerguru will be on the ground there on…
Love amongst the literary lesbians in Vita & Virginia @ BFI Flare
BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival has just announced that they will open this year’s festival with the UK premiere of Chanya Button’s VITA & VIRGINIA. The movie is adapted from adapted from Dame Eileen Atkins’ award winning play of the same name, the film tells the true story of the passionate relationship between…
It is impossible not to Love Scott : a new documentary about an exceptional man
In 2013, 26-year-old musician Scott Jones was attacked outside a gay bar in a small town in Nova Scotia and as result was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though the perpetrator was caught and convicted, the Police refused to even consider it a hate crime that was motivated by a hatred of gay people. Scott’s best…
DAVID HOYLE talks
The legendary Brit queer performer David Hoyle one of the very first ‘alternative drag’ artists talks about his new film Uncle David 2, Holly Revell Photographer book #ParallelUniverse and performing at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and more The interview with Roger Walker-Dack for www.queergurutv.com was recorded at BFI Flare Southbank
Elingur Thoroddsen talks about his gay horror movie RIFT
When queerguru was recently at BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ Film Festival we talked to Icelandic filmmaker Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen about his gay horror movie Rift / Rökkur which was screening there and is now available in the US we streaming on Amazon Prime and iTunes etc, from Breaking Glass Pictures. BTW Erlingur thinks that all gay…
