documentary
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Suited
Suited is an extraordinarily uplifting documentary about a couple of NY Tailors who have found their calling making suits for gender non-confirming clients. Their story started a few years ago when Rae Tutera (who had been born Rachel) came across a rather unassuming tailor called Daniel Friedman (who is straight & Jewish) who made him his…
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Uncle Howard : a Tribute to filmmaker Howard Brookner
Unquestionably one of the best movies with LGBT content to premiere at this Sundance Film Festival was filmmaker Aaron Brookner’s delightful tribute to his filmmaker Uncle that who he adored and who sadly died of AIDS in 1989 at the tender age of 34. Howard Brookner packed a lot into his short life…
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Nothing Left Unsaid : Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
One of the most wonderful premieres here at Sundance was the documentary on socialite and artist the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and her son CNN’s anchor the openly gay Anderson Cooper entitled “Nothing Left Unsaid”. The 92 year-old Vanderbilt has the most colorful past and in some very frank and open interviews with her son we learned…
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The Best LGBT Movies of 2015 (pt 2 : Documentaries)
2015 was another good year for queer cinema from mainstream to indie particularly for documentaries, one our favorite genres, and here is our pick of the very best of them that we saw this year. 10) “Before The Last Curtain Falls” The German/Canadian documentarian Thomas Wallner’s very moving record of…
