When queer filmmaker Tristan Aitchison first left his home in the remote Scottish Highlands to visit his sister in Kenya almost 7000 miles away he had no intention of working, BUT he took his camera along just in case. Very soon after arriving he met Sidney a very shy intersex youth who’s family nit content enough with beating him up, actually threatened to kill him.
Through Sidney he met a small group that included trans and intersex youth facing daily struggles to stay alive . With no budget and no crew Aitchison set about filming interviews and fast forward three years and a lot of heartache., the documentary SIDNEY & FRIENDS was complete,
It’s a powerful heart-wrenching film that touches your very core when you realise exactly how impossible life for these LGBTQ youth, and how they can still find joy in the most unexpected ways.
Aitchison’s film has been remarkably successful picking up 11 awards already and on the eve of the film now being available to stream on AMAZON PRIME , he talks with QUEERGURU about his journey making Sidney & Friends
Following on from his award-winning No Ordinary Man (that Queerguru raved about….) Canadian trans filmmaker Chase Joynt the director and co-writer of Framing Agnes sits down with co-writer #MorganMPage to talk with QUEERGURU about their excellent new film, one of the best queer movies at Sundance Film Festival where it just picked up two prestigious awards.
30 year Brit Freddy McConnell always wanted to be a parent and the fact that he is a transman was never going to stop him. He entrusted his friend Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay with the task of filming his journey in such a non-sensationalised way so that he could share all the trials and tribulations of him giving birth.
On the eve of this excellent heart-touching documentary Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth getting a VOD/DVD release in the US on 6/16, Queerguru tracked down Freddy to where he and baby Jack are in lockdown in their small hometown on the British coast. https://seahorsefilm.com/
P.S. You can read Queerguru’s full review of the documentary HERE
Following his heart (and his BF) queer artist GASTON LACOMBE has just moved to PTown and opened his very first Studio/Gallery. His next exhibit BODY MOSAICS that opens for the town’s Bear Week is stunning homoerotic queer art that will make everyone re-think about how they really feel about their bodies.
The interview with Roger Walker-Dack for www.queergurutv.com was filmed by Dan Desjardins
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Photographer and artist Gaston Lacombe has produced new work for BIG his latest Exhibit in his PTown Studio to celebrate PRIDE. This is his 2nd year in Town and he has already established himself as one of the most exciting new queer artists that has a such a unique approach to his work. He talked with QUEERGURUon the eve of BIG.