documentary
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Gay Chorus : Deep South and their message of hope
It seems like perfect timing for this new film, the debut feature from director David Charles Rodrigues, a Brazilian American equal-rights advocate. After a new wave of homophobia bordering on violence which the present Administration seem content to sanction, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus became determined to counter-balance this with a message of…
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A Night at Switch ‘n Play is a Queer night you will never forget
About to have its World Premiere at Toronto’s Inside Out Festival, the delightful A Night at Switch n’ Play is probably the queerest film we have seen in long time. We so hope those Canadians are ready for i., This feature documentary film debut from director Cody Stickels is an exuberant close up look…
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Southern Pride : the struggle to organize Gay Pride in the Deep South
For his 5th documentary queer Canadian filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has returned to the American South where he shot his award-winning Small Town Gay Bar in 2006, Now he is back in two small towns in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast looking at the state of the LGBTQ community just after Trump’s election in 2016. We…
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Barbara Rubin and The Exploding NY Underground
This is a rather conventional documentary of a filmmaker who was anything but. Barbara Rubin exploded on the New York underground scene as a teenage when in 1963 her Uncle asked Jonas Mekas a Lithuanian filmmaker known as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema to give her a job. He was more than happy…
