documentary
-
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary SOCKS ON FIRE
Socks on Fire is poet Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary about his family in rural Hokes Bluff, Alabama. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. The main storyline is the feud between one of his aunts, the homophobic Sharon, and his Uncle John, a flamboyant drag queen, over the…
-
Little Girl : a 7 year old trans girl living her truth : reviewed by Queerguru’s Ris Fatah
Little Girl is the touching French documentary portrait of seven-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender, and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still largely invested in a traditional boy-girl way of thinking. Acclaimed documentary maker Sebastian Lifshitz was motivated to create this sympathetic, intimate documentary whilst making…
-
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews NORTH BY CURRENT an excellent doc about family reconciliation on PBS
North by Current is a documentary about family reconciliation and premiered very successfully at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the inconclusive death of his young niece Kalla, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown during the bleak winter of 2015. He was originally preparing to make a film about a…
-
Mayor Pete : the story of the remarkable gay man who wanted to be President
When Pete Buttigieg campaigned to be the Democratic Candidate for President of the USA in 2020, he somehow managed to keep most of us in the dark about who he really was/is. This intensely private man whose sexuality made his candidature so unique and unwittingly such a major focus of his platform still remains…
