American writer-director Will Seefried’s first feature film, Lilies Not For Me, premiered this August at the Edinburgh Film Festival to mixed reviews. But with a strong cast of promising newcomers, including the brooding Fionn O’Shea in the lead, it is a confident, original debut, and suggests that Seefried is a name to watch. Set … Continue reading
This feature length documentary is both a live record of a small staged Ball held in 2022 in Niteroi, just outside Rio de Janeiro, and a history of the Ballroom movement in Brazil, including interviews with the main personalities in some of the Brazilian Houses. For the uninitiated, central to the Ballroom … Continue reading
The Bus Driver is short documentary film produced by The Scottish Documentary Institute and directed by Ku Ki. Released in May 2024, it follows a day in the life of a trans bus driver and his wife as they try to make a living in a country beset by curfews and power cuts. … Continue reading
Ginger Johnson Blows Off https://www.pleasance.co.uk/ What do you do after realising all your dreams by winning Ru-Paul’s Drag Race UK in 2023? This is the question asked by the formidable Ginger Johnson (aka Donald Marshall) in Ginger Johnson Blows Off. Well, first of all you plan a show for Soho Theatre at the Edinburgh … Continue reading
Little Squirt Eschewing the porny “Spunk Daddy” for a more apt and user friendly title, “Little Squirt”, up and coming queer performer Darby James brings his award winning Melbourne cabaret about sperm donation to Edinburgh. Dressed as a sailor, (Jean Genet’s Querelle?) or a seaman ( get it? ) Darby is already … Continue reading
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