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  • The Paris Opera

    The Paris Opera

      The movie cameras are back at The Paris Opera again, but unlike Fredrick Wiseman’s 2009 documentary La danse, and the 2015 film Reset that tracked Benjamin Millepied’s first full year as the Opera Ballet’s new director, this new film from Swiss director Jean-Stephane Bron is all about  drama.  Most of which seems to happen off-stage. The…

  • Miss Hope Springs Sings  ….. and so much more

    Miss Hope Springs Sings ….. and so much more

    We are getting our tuxedo ready to get all dolled up as next week we have a date with the glamorous chanteuse Miss Hope Springs. This sophisticated award-winning star of London’s cabaret scene who sings of big hopes and broken dreams has agreed to meet as long as we don’t bring up her past at the…

  • Mother Knows Best wins the £30,000 Iris Prize

    Mother Knows Best wins the £30,000 Iris Prize

      Swedish filmmaker Mikael Bundsen has just won the 2017 Iris Prize, Cardiff’s International LGBT Short Film Prize. This prestigious Award now referred the being part of the ‘Gay Oscars’, comes with  a massive £30,000,  thanks to the generosity of The Michael Bishop Foundation. The prize money will allow Bundsen to make a new short…

  • The Prom King 2010 gets Crowned

    The Prom King 2010 gets Crowned

    Congratulations to Christopher Schaap for winning the prestigious Best Feature Award at the Iris Prize Festival for his debut movie Prom King, 2010 : here is our interview from earlier this year just after we met at OUTshine Film Festival in #Miami