documentary
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Playing Gay: How America Came Out on Television
Actor Wilson Cruz (whose breakthrough role was as Rickie the gay teenager in the cult classic TV show ‘My So-Called Life’) is stepping behind the camera for once and is the Executive Producer of a new documentary currently being planned called ‘Playing Gay: How America Came Out on Television’. Written and directed by activist and talk show…
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My Leftover Ladies
In China the word ‘Sheng nu’ means ‘leftover women’ and is a derogatory term made popular by the All-China Women’s Federation that classifies women who remain unmarried after they are 28 years old. It’s part of the pressure that their society place on women to conform and accept that marriage is the only goal they…
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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…
