A few weeks back I had the distinct pleasure of attending and serving on the jury of the premiere edition of Napa Valley Film Festival. I want to promote / publicize their 2nd outing later this year but first I want to use this forum to say why I think they at Napa – and events like them ...
Read More »Sam Ashby was a busy graphic designer who wanted to put his skills to work on a magazine. And then one night, while watching Paul Morrissey's "Flesh" starring Warhol favorite "Little"Joe Dallesandro, he found his muse.
Read More »Former Atlantic Film Festival Programming Manager Andrew Murphy will move from Halifax to Toronto to serve as the Director of Programming of Inside Out, which runs the annual Toronto LGBT Film Festival. The move comes after twelve years for Murphy at Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival.
Read More »Monday afternoon at Sundance's Filmmakers Lounge, GLAAD held a panel to discuss "Keep the Lights On," the latest drama from Ira Sachs playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. The event, dubbed "What Modern Queer Cinema Looks Like" (moderated by New York Magazine's K...
Read More »LGBT media organization Gay & Lesbian Against Alliance Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for their 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Read More »Below, first-time director Jake Yuzna shares a scene from his 2010 Berlinale Teddy Award-winning feature film "Open." It holds the distinction of being the only American film to ever receive the Teddy jury prize; the film also received a Best Actor award at NewFest for its actor Mort...
Read More »Earlier this week, it was reported the famous Castro Theatre, long a cinematic home for the queer community, art-house gems and one of San Francisco's classic movie palaces (built in 1922), was finished as a movie theatre, according to the blog, the Petrelis Files. Many staffers were fired, i...
Read More »EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published during the Sundance Film Festival. "We Were Here" opens this Friday at the Angelika Film Center in New York City
Read More »Lynda Nibley's documentary "Two Spirits" has received the PBS-Independent Lens Audience Award, recognizing its status as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by the measures of online voting and other forms of audience support.
Read More »Israel Luna's low-budget horror film "Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives" will make its US television debut on Showtime July 2, 2011. The film was the subject of a GLAAD-sponsored protest that encouraged the Tribeca Film Festival to pull the film from its 2010 lineup, and according to an indieWIRE int...
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