Mardi Gras Film Festival
Sneak Preview of QUEER SCREEN’S MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL in Sydney, Australia
We know there is still a month left to go in 2024 BUT its still not to early to share the first sneak preview that our friends at QUEER SCREEN producers of the Mardi Gras Film Festival program sent us. Its held in Sydney (when its Australia’s summer) during their iconic Gay and Lesbian…
Queerguru’s TOP PICKS of MUST SEE FILMS at Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney Australia
It’s a new year which means a whole new round of some of the very best QUEER FILM FESTIVALS around the Globe. The first out of the block as usual is Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney, Australia which runs from 15th Feb – 29th Feb The wonderfully diverse program for…
Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES @ Queer Screen – Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney
In 1993, a group of queer Sydney filmmakers, students, and supporters approached Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to establish an independent organization whose focus would be queer film and screen culture. This organization was Queer Screen. (One of those pioneer filmmakers was Stephen Cummins who died in 1994, and now is…
Stephen Cummins Retrospective : tribute to a groundbreaking Australian queer filmmaker
Stephen Cummins was an Australian filmmaker, photographer and curator who left an indelible mark on the independent queer film scene. He made groundbreaking experimental homoerotic films and was part of B Ruby Rich’s 1992 Sundance panel that came up with the concept of NEW QUEER CINEMA. He died in 1994 of AIDS aged 34, now…
