During the recent Provincetown International Film Festival #PIFF16queerguru got to pursue three of our favorite passions all rolled into one i.e. movies, LGBT history and politics. Prior to the screening of a brand new documentary POLITICAL ANIMALS (click the link for our full review) we got to sit down to talk with Tracy Wares one of the movie’s co directors, and one of its stars Senator Carole Migden.
The Senator was one of four openly gay politicians …. all women … who rocked the very foundations of the California Legislature way back when as they successfully battled away to get our community some basic equal rights that would eventually pave the way for us to get these on a Federal Level too.
In this interview for P.T.V. filmed at the Sage Inn & Lounge in P Town by Rik Ahlberg and Heather Reed (who also edited it too) we get to talk about how this compelling story about these extraordinary pioneers came to be documented. We also got the Senator to not just reminisce about the past, but share with us her thoughts on what we still need to do as a Community too.
Political Animals doesn’t just recount this essential part of our recent history, but is also serves to act as a tribute to these four fearless women who we will always be so indebted too.
Front Cover a new LGBT movie that is about to get its US theatrical release before it is available on global streaming platforms in the Fall , is the story of what happens when a gay American/Chinese fashionista meets a closeted popstar from Mainland China and sparks fly. queerguru talks via Facetime with the movie’s writer/director Ray Yeung
queerguru tv had a blast at the Provincetown Film Festival #PIFF2017 earlier this year. We were on the Red Carpet, reviewed 15 movies + filmed 20 one-on- one interviews with filmmakers too. Here’s a wee glimpse of our week.
principal photography : Hussein Wentz
written & edited : Roger Walker-Dack
queerguru thanks: Amy Davies, Anthony & Alex, Chloe Sevigny, Christine Walker, Crown & Anchor, Courtney Moorhead, David France, Derek Dodge, Eddie Shore, Heather Reed, Jake Graf, Jason Benjamin, Jennifer Reeder, John Waters, Katherine Diekermann, Kory Mello, Lands End Inn, P.David Ebersole, Peter Knegt, PTV, Rick Murray, Robbie Lepzer, Sarah Wharton, Sebastian Junger, Todd Hughes, Victoria Cruz, Vincent Gagliostro, Will Sullivan,
Robbie Leppzer is the writer/director of a new feature length documentary Power Struggle which paints an alarming picture about the state of nuclear power and democracy. The film raises disturbing issues about the safety of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant and the lies and deceit of the authorities responsible for both running it, and overseeing it too.
Leppzer talked to Roger Walker-Dack and the interview was filmed at the Lands End Inn during #PIFF2017 by Heather Reed & Hussein Wentz for ‘queerguru reports’ on PTV’s Channel 99