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Dev Patel’s MONKEY MAN :a thriller about a fight club and the desire for retribution, but it’s also about the trans community in India.
Its rare that a Hollywood blockbuster touches on anything remotely LGBTQ, but Universal Pictures is about release Monkey Man a thriller about a fight club and the desire for retribution, but it’s also about the trans community in India. The movie is the directing debut of Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) who is also the co-writer…
Queerguru talks with Samyuktha Vijayan about their remarkable filmmaking debut BLUE SUNSHINE
BLUE SUNSHINE is a remarkable film . The debut film from Indian filmmaker Samyuktha Vijayan who wrote, directed and starred in this captivating new drama, that lays out a story of transitioning that is refreshingly unsensationalized. Based on her own journey Vijayan’s tale is powerfully uplifting and although it doesn’t beg us for…
Queerguru reviews BLUE SUNSHINE a remarkable must-see transitioning story from India that both entertains and educates
One of the sheer joys and benefits of being a queer film reviewer is that we get to be on the frontline to see how and when our community emerges from the darkness of our past and continues to self-determines its own destiny. Its also the way we can learn about the other parts…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DESIRE LINES ‘an inclusive celebration of gay trans men and gay trans-masculine lives’
“Can a vagina be masculine?” This, and many more thought-provoking questions, are posed by interviewer/director Jules Rosskam, in his innovative new documentary Desire Lines, which examines the lives of trans men who also became gay men after transitioning. Rosskam’s film, which premiered this week at Sundance, combines drama with documentary. Iranian-American trans man…
