Tribeca
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Queerguru reviews RIPE a refreshing queer coming-out-story from filmmaking duo TUSK that premiered at Tribeca
The Tribeca Film Festival is not just a launching pad for a whole spectrum of the best new independent feature movies, but it also premieres an impressive array of short films too. Ripe is one such case. Made by a queer duo of filmmakers known as Tusk, its a charming coming out-story that happens…
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Diane Von Furstenberg : Woman In Charge (of her own fairy tale….)
Many of us would probably like to re-write history at one time or another but few of us would get away with it as well as Diane Von Furstenberg. who has skated through a great deal of her life staking claim to being the designer of the ‘wrap dress’ .That wouldn’t sit well with…
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KIMBERLY REED talks about I’M YOUR VENUS the story of the life and legacy of VENUS XTRAVAGENZA
Filmmaker KIMBERLY REED talks about ‘I’M YOUR VENUS’ the story of the life and legacy of VENUS XTRAVAGENZA who was murdered during the making of the now classic drag ballroom film PARIS IS BURNING in 1990. Reed links up with Venus’s three familial brothers from New Jersey. plus members of the Xtravagenza family to…
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Queerguru reviews ‘I’m Your Venus’ the story of the life and legacy of VENUS XTRAVAGENZA
In setting out to document the re-opening the investigation of the unsolved brutal murder of Venus Xtravaganza, filmmaker Kimberly Reed uncovers a side of this story that we would never have expected. Venus was one of the stars of the legendary 1990 documentary PARIS IS BURNING about drag queens in the ballroom scene…
