documentary
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews COMMITMENT TO LIFE ‘the most comprehensive film on the history of AIDS’
Los Angeles, 1981. The dark shadow of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic was just beginning and, for the time being, the thriving queer community members of West Hollywood’s ‘BoysTown’ were living life to the full, blissfully unaware of what lay ahead for them. Emmy Award-Winner film-maker Jeffrey Schwarz begins his latest documentary here and takes…
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The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime : 25 Years On
It is so very hard to realize that it has been 25 years since gay teenager Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered. Partly due to the unceasing work that his mother Judy Shepard has done to help our community become a safer place. Aided by Matthew’s father Dennis the pair used their grief to change things…
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STUCK IN GREECE : An LGBTQ+ Immigrant Crisis
When out-gay actor and filmmaker Gerald McCullouch (CSI, Physical, the BearCity trilogy) went to Athens, Greece in 2016 for a screening of his film Daddy, he unexpectedly met a group of LGBT refugees fleeing persecution from their communities, their governments, and their families who now find themselves trapped in Greece. Unable to move…
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A Worm in the Heart : Paul Rice’s debut film about the plight of LGBTQ in Russia today
One of our main driving forces in QUEERGURU reviewing so many new indie movies is the sheer hope that once in a blue moon, you come across a new fresh, and extraordinary voice. One that has such a passion and drive that makes all the hours/days/months in those screening rooms all worthwhile. Paul Rice…
