biography
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Gayby Baby
Filmmaker Maya Newell has followed her successful Australian TV series ‘Growing Up Gayby’ with this new full length documentary that takes a look at the lives of four different children whose parents all happen to be gay. It is evidently a subject that is dear to her heart having grown up with two mothers herself.…
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Dressed As A Girl: the best of East London’s Alternative Queer scene
If you are unfamiliar with the alternative drag scene in London’s vibrant East End, then discovering the extraordinary performance artist Jonny Woo who had been the ringmaster of it all for the past decade, is quite an eyeopener. Although I should add quickly, one of the very best kind. In this new documentary from first…
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Women He’s Undressed
Gillian Armstrong’s captivating documentary on three-time Academy Award Winning Costume Designer the larger than life Orry-Kelly starts out with a rather wonderful statement ‘He called himself a hem stitcher, yet he really was a Hollywood Star. In the country he’s come from, that’s bloody amazing, but no-one has ever heard of him’. The country it…
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Tig
It’s not unusual for comedians to use their stand up routines as a substitute for a session with their therapists as they use their audience to unburden all their woes too. Tig Notaro however went much further than most when she went on stage to do her usual act one night in the Largo Club…
