Filmmaker/.writer Joe Cardona the 2018 Winner of Oolite Arts ‘Ellies Award’ talked to QUEERGURU about his planned documentary THE GAY MEN OF MARIEL which was his winning entry.
N.B. Mariel refers to the mass emigration of Cubans to the US in 1980
Queer Brit actor, writer, director, singer-songwriter , filmmaker and advocate Leon Lopez is passionate about his work. Even in the COVID 19 Lockdown he cannot keep still and has created two short films about how it is all affecting people and relationships in DISTANCING and HEY GOOGLE …. we’ll confess the latter had us in tears.
So Queerguru tracked him down in the UK to talk about these wonderful wee films of his …… and also to spend sometime reminiscing about his remarkable career to date which is full of surprises
N.B. Both of the films can be watched in You Tube HERE
Canadian filmmaker Peter Knegt talks to queerguru about his new cute short Plus One which he directed, co-wrote and starred in about a gay man’s close relationship with a lesbian.
In 1988 Margaret Thatcher introduced a hate-filled anti-LGBTQ Law called CLAUSE 28 which was to effectively ban the promotion of homosexuality. Even now some 30 years later it’s left a bitter memory within the LGBTQ Community for its sheer pernisciousness. Brit filmmaker Joseph Wilson‘ talks to QUEERGURU about his short dystopian film that follows a group of unapologetically queer warriors forced to flee the UK at that time.