OUTshine
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews The Fixation, an erotic thriller which has its world premiere at Miami´s Outshine Film Festival
The dark side of obsession rears its head in The Fixation (La Fijación), an excellent, twisted, erotic, queer thriller by director Matias De Leis Correia, which has its world premiere at Miami´s Outshine Film Festival this Saturday. Handsome Argentine fashion photographer Alvaro (Diego Alfonso) has an established business with his studio partner Monica (Gabriele Pastor). Times…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ARMANI AND THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN FASHION’ fascinating piece of social history about the rise of Armani, Gucci & Versace
A certain kind of magic happens when the worlds of ambitious gay men and alluring, equally ambitious women collide, never more so than in the designer fashion world with male designers and their supermodel friends and Hollywood muses. Armani And The Birth of Italian Fashion, a documentary by John Maggio, traces the rise of a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Brian J Smith talks about A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO a love letter to queer life on Fire Island
Actor turned filmmaker Brian J Smith’s debut behind the camera is his love letter to Fire Island The place is evocative to so many queers around the world. The narrow ten square miles sand bar of 600 beach houses, a hundred co-ops, a beautiful beach, wooden boardwalks, no roads or cars, and…
