Jason Benjamin the director of Suited one of THE best docs of 2016 which told the story of Bindle & Keep tailors who specialize in custom made clothing for genderqueer people and the trans community, talked to queerguru about the movie and more. He was at #PIFF2017 as the guest speaker at the Evan Lawson Filmmakers Brunch to discuss a new project with Veterans Filmmaking Academy and their short film Returning.
Writer/director Katherine Dieckmann talks about Strange Weather her new movie, and in particular the powerful potentially award-winning performance of Holly Hunter in this intriguing Southern drama.
The veteran gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer was right. Again. After Louie is indeed a movie that had to be made. Filmmaker Vincent Gagliostro talks about his directing debut with this powerful and entertaining inter-generational drama about AIDS. Starring Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth the story tackles how we are all coping now the the AIDS pandemic is no longer the lethal threat to us all that it once was.
Gagliostro told queerguruthat After Louie is about getting that older generation to dare to dream again, and at the same time, getting the younger generation to just dream
Writer/director Courtney Moorehead talks to queerguruabout her new drama Little Pink House that stars Catherine Keener and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Based on a very real story about one woman’s battle against the vast Pfizer Corporation who wanted to compulsory purchase her beautiful riverside home to build a bigger factory to make more Viagra. Her battle went all the way to the US Supreme Court where the controversial 5-4 decision outraged Americans across the political spectrum, and fueled reforms that helped curb eminent domain abuse.
Filmmaking duo Anthony & Alex talk to queerguru about Susanne Bartsch On Top : their definitive profile of N.Y’s Queen of the Night who has set the style and pace for Manhattan’s clubbers for the past three decades. They capture the essence of this legendary larger-than-life party promoter as they look back (and at the present) of how she took over the mantle of Andy Warhol when she conquered the city.
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