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Iris Prize Festival’s tantalizing trailer

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Cardiff’s Iris Prize Festival now celebrating its 10th Edition is the most prestigious competition in the world for LGBT short movies and is backed up with a colossal £30000 prize …. more than enough for the lucky winner to kickstart developing their film into a full length feature. Past winners have included Daniel Ribeiro, Tim Marshall … Continue reading



The Oscar goes …… to the Woman in the Red Dress

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Two of the most highly anticipated movies are about to hit our screens and even before their release in US movie theaters there is talk of Oscar nominations for both actresses playing the leads.  Kate Winslet’s The Dressmaker swept the Australian Oscars with this outrageous camp story about a woman who returns to her hometown … Continue reading



You’re Terrible Muriel

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Actually Muriel was not terrible, but an absolute riot and the 1994 Australian movie  Muriel’s Wedding launched both Toni Collete and Rachel Griffiths into the world with such a bang, and then became a  cult classic that every gay man  of a certain age (and Abba fan….often the same)  knows word by word. P.J. Hogan, who … Continue reading



Richard Avedon : Moving Image

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Visionaire Magazine’s co-founding editors Cecilia Dean and James Kaliardos have curated a new exhibit ‘Richard Avedon — Moving Image‘ as part of New York Fashion Week.  Held at Cadillac House, a new public space that’s located on the ground floor of the brand’s New York headquarters at 330 Hudson Street, the uniqueness of this exhibition is that … Continue reading



The Story of the man behind the iconic Falcon Studios

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Chuck Holmes , the adult film producer who founded the iconic Falcon Studios back in 1971, is often referred too as the gay Hugh Heffner.  As one of the most successful pioneers of gay pornography, Holmes was single-handedly responsible for re-defining the identity of gay men in the early 1980’s when there was a severe lack … Continue reading



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