José Mayorga
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews Sam McCoy’s PRIDE/PROM at The Warhol Creative
While watching Sam McCoy’s new documentary Pride/Prom on queer youth at the Andy Warhol Museum, the news on February 5th 2025 about the signing of an executive order barring transgender athletes from women´s sports spread globally. The film has a warm feeling in this cold Winter and particularly, nice low camera angles; we learn…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ACSEXABILITY an unmissable very personal story from Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Gonçalves
DESIRE IS A HUMAN RIGHT, FOR EVERYONE. Joao Paulo Lima The first sequence of this Brazilian documentary is a long descriptive one, orally rich and visually intriguing with silhouettes that fade out to allow what follows, a profoundly human narrative right up to the end. The film is a salutation to the ancestors whose…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Marco Berger’s ‘The Astronaut Lovers’ the Opening Night Gala Film at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney
No astronaut will refuse to look at the stars… In this romantic comedy from Argentinian Teddy Award Winner Marco Berger (one of Queerguru’s very favorite queer filmmakers) Javier Orán and Lautaro Bettoni are Pedro and Maxi, friends from childhood reunited years later at a beach house with a group of friends, during a weekend. While…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER (La bella estate) from Laura Luchetti
Set in Pre-war Turin with Benito Mussolini´s speeches as background, the film shows the journey into adulthood of a young woman from the countryside coming to the city with her brother, in a story held by pins. Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is a skillful and dedicated seamstress, dress and pattern maker working at a…
