Catherine Gund the co-director of the award-winning Chavela Vargas Film, the delightful story of one of Mexico’s most famous ranchero singers: the outrageous #Chavela who lived a wild raucous life that was full of tequila and pretty women….. talks to Roger Walker-Dack on the eve of the movie’s special screening at Waters Edge Cinema for Ptown Women’s Week and also its NY premiere
Once in a blue moon when we are ploughing through our usual packed schedule of movies to review, we come across a wee gem that hails an extraordinary new talent that gets us more than a little excited. Discovering that this particular new find wrote, directed and starred in his first feature, but who is barely out of college, makes it all even more remarkable. Prom King, 2010 is already being hailed as one of the best new LGBT movies of 2017, and queerguru talked to its creator being hailed as the new wunderkind : Christopher Schaap. He is an old-fashion romantic in a young soul.
The interview via Facetime was filmed and edited by Roger Walker-Dack for “queerguru reports” for PTV’s Channel 99.
P.S. for queerguru’s full review of the movie click HERE
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.
Following his first highly successful documentary ‘How To Survive A Plague’ which deservedly won him an Oscar Nomination, filmmaker David France has now turned his attention to the mystery surrounding the death of legendary NY drag queen and activist Marsha P. Johnson for his sophomore movie. With the help of Victoria Cruz who was about to retire from the NY Anti-Violence Project, they try to get to the truth of what really happened to this stalwart of the Gay Liberation movement who was a central figure in the Stonewall riots.