interview
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Mucho Mucho Amor for the new film on Walter Mercado
Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado was a global phenomenon. Dressed like a latino Liberace he was one of the most celebrated and beloved figures on Spanish-language television — an extravagant, outrageous, endlessly positive, gender non-conforming who dispensed horoscopes to daily TV audience that reached 150 million viewers at his peak. One the eve of…
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Tom Shepard @ UNSETTLED : Seeking Refuge in America
TOM SHEPARD started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBTQ refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. His cameras show us the…
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Brit queer filmmaker BLAISE SINGH talks about PRIDE & PROTEST
If Blaise Singh had not been compelled to give up his job as an Secondary School Teacher, then we would never have gained a talented filmmaker with a fresh new voice about being Asian/Black and gay in the UK today. His passion and commitment to LGBTQ/human rights is infectious and as we see in…
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Filmmaker Tristan Aitchison talks about SIDNEY & FRIENDS
When queer filmmaker Tristan Aitchison first left his home in the remote Scottish Highlands to visit his sister in Kenya almost 7000 miles away he had no intention of working, BUT he took his camera along just in case. Very soon after arriving he met Sidney a very shy intersex youth who’s family nit…
