documentary
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Knots : A Forced Marriage Story
Filmmaker Kate Ryan Brewer’s powerful documentary on forced marriage is such an eye-opener that will shock most people who view it. Like others, I had been too quick to assume that such marriages are something that only occurs in third-world countries. How very wrong I was. Her film is about the forced marriages that…
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Have you got the Balls to watch this?
Back in 2016 Border2Border producer, Charlie David turned his attention to one of his favorite subjects. He enlisted queer award-winning director Nickolaos Stagias (I’m A Stripper) to make this very useful and ‘educational’ film ‘Balls‘ Essentially it’s a documentary about the body part most associated with manhood and what happens when that’s taken away. Our…
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Chris McKIm talks about his excellent new doc WOJNAROWICZ
Emmy award-winning documentarian Chris McKim talks about Wojnarowicz an excellent new doc on one of NY’s greatest queer artists/activists on the eve of its screening at OUTshine Film Festival. The film produced by World of Wonder is also online/select theaters via Kino Marquee.
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation : reviewed by Andrew Hebden
For those of us who might be outrageously, but fairly, accused of being more interested in mentioning that we have read Truman Capote or Tennesse Williams than actually reading them, this is the perfect documentary. Its mixture of biography, gossip, observations, and anecdotes in their famously distinct voices conveys a sense of both their…
