Queer Screen
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Australia’s QUEER SCREEN is the first LGBTQIA+ festival invited to screen movies at the prestigious 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Queerguru are so excited to send our heartfelt congrats to Queer Screen, producers of our favorite antipodean queer film fests: Sydney’s Mardi Gras Film Festival and Queer Screen Film Fest. They are the first Australian and the very first LGBTQIA+ festival invited to the prestigious 70th annual Cannes Film Festival. Each year the…
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Filmmaker GORAN STOLEVSKI talks about his ‘achingly beautiful’ queer love story ‘OF AN AGE’
Australian/Macedonian queer filmmaker Goran Stolevski ‘s sophomore movie OF AN AGE is being hailed as an ‘achingly beautiful coming out/coming of age story that compares with Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country and will become a queer classic ” This heart-string-pulling tale initially takes place over 24 hours in a beach town in Australia in…
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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…
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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…
