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LEON LOPEZ talks about filming queer stories during COVID 19 Lockdown
Queer Brit actor, writer, director, singer-songwriter , filmmaker and advocate Leon Lopez is passionate about his work. Even in the COVID 19 Lockdown he cannot keep still and has created two short films about how it is all affecting people and relationships in DISTANCING and HEY GOOGLE …. we’ll confess the latter had us…
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Israeli Filmmaker EYTAN FOX talks about his new Romance
Multi-award winning filmmaker Eytan Fox is often referred to as the ‘father of Israeli queer movies’ : think Yossi and Jagger, Yossi Bubble (Film). He now has a wonderful brand new film …. his first one shot in English …. and starring John Benjamin Hickey and newcomer #NivNissim. Queerguru tracked him down in Tel Aviv to talk with him…
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James Sweeney Straight Up : the story of a confused (cute) gay man
One of the hottest movies to do the LGBTQ Film Festival circuit last year and that received unanimous rave reviews was STRAIGHT UP. It was the feature film directing debut of JAMES SWEENEY a young queer filmmaker from LA who also wrote and produced and took the starring role. His story of Todd a man…
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Queer auteur JOSEPH WILSON talks about IL WIDNA his dystopian take on Thatcher’s Anti-LGBTQ Laws
In 1988 Margaret Thatcher introduced a hate-filled anti-LGBTQ Law called CLAUSE 28 which was to effectively ban the promotion of homosexuality. Even now some 30 years later it’s left a bitter memory within the LGBTQ Community for its sheer pernisciousness. Brit filmmaker Joseph Wilson‘ talks to QUEERGURU about his short dystopian film that follows…
