Now on the eve of its release in the US by Music Box Films, and next month in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures, QUEERGURU talked to him his wonderful movie which is the first with an LGBT storyline to come out of Georgia (the country)
P.S. You can read QUEERGURU’s full review of the movie HERE
Cheng co-wrote this remarkable coming-of-age movie with his producer GEORGE F. ROBERSON and they based their script on the hundreds of interviews that they conducted with locals in Guatemala. Against the startling background of this impoverished city which ranks as the second most dangerous in the world. 19 year old Luis is looking for love as a way out of his daily drudge.
We talked to Cheng on the eve of the showing of his groundbreaking and powerful #LGBTQ movie at Miami Film Festival.
Linus Karp is a London-based Swedish actor, writer, theatremaker, and full-time princess. He runs Awkward Productions alongside his creative and life partner Joseph Martin and together they have just enjoyed a sold-out critically acclaimed run of DIANA. THE UNTOLD STORY. (see https://queerguru.com/linus-karp-dian…) So the pair of them have gone from Royal Princess to Hollywood Princess for their new show GWYNETH GOES SKIING. Very loosely based on a recent Court Case when the Hollywood Star was sued for causing an accident on the ski slopes. She countered sued but it was the Trial that made for such good (and bad) theatre that Karp and Martin seized upon it as the subject for their new comic parody that will play at London’s Pleasance Theatre this December
Queerguru caught up with them both the day before they were due to start rehearsals to get the low down (and try and squeeze out of them the date they expect Miss P to be in the audience)
P.S. There is one final perfomance of ‘Diana’ at the glorious Clapham Grand on Dec 6th
What strikes one most about LUCIA LUCAS, the American opera singer now based in Germany who is the subject of a new documentary is her sheer passion for both life and opera. In the film director James Kicklighter captures that so succinctly as he profiles Lucas as she is about to make her US debut performing the lead role in a new production of Don Giovanni for The Tulsa Opera.
Lucas is a trans woman. Having said that the disarmingly charming Lucas is neither a martyr nor pioneer to the cause. She is a human being and an extremely talented singer who just happens to also be a trans woman.
Having been so caught up in her on-screen charisma, Queerguru tracked Lucas down in Europe to talk about the significance of both her performance and this new documentary. The film is being released on VOD on most major streaming platforms, on June 1st to mark the start of Pride Month.
P.S, You can read Queerguru’s full review of The Identity of Sound HERE
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