First Festival Screening – August 21, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at SFU GCA Also known as Ce Qu’on A Building from the complexities arising from gay cruising and relationships in a small town, What We Have is a gorgeously constructed film marking the arrival of a signature new queer Canadian talent, Maxime Desmons (writer/director/star). Maurice, […]
Festival Screening – August 20, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at SFU GCA In one of the most thoughtful documentaries on gender non-conformity we’ve seen, director Lonny Shavelson offers us an inspirational and loving essay on the multiplicity of genders outside the binary. A landmark contribution to cinema on genderqueer, gender variant and gender non-conforming identities, […]
Film Independent and the United Nations today announce the launch of the Free & Equal Global Film Series — a collection of narrative films and documentaries that explore the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in different parts of the world. The film series is part of the UN’s Free & Equal […]
Special preview screenings showcase upcoming august festival WHAT:The 11th Annual Flickers’ “Secret Cinema” LGBTQ Festival Preview (part of the Rhode Island International Film Festival) WHEN: Friday and Saturday, June 13th & 14th, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: • Friday, June 13th – The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts (with entry at 83 Park Street, […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton We Were Here Director: David Weissman Cast: Eileen Glutzer, Paul Boneberg, Guy Clark, Daniel Goldstein, Ed Wolf In We Were Here, Weissman introduces us to five people who were in San Francisco when the AIDS epidemic began. In one way or another, each was affected with the changes to the […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton Together Director: Zhao Liang Cast: Gu Changwei While filming Till Death Do Us Part, director Gu Changwei decided that he was going to include people with HIV/AIDS among his cast and crew in an effort to show to the general Chinese population that there is nothing to fear from knowing, […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton What’s the Name of the Dame? Director: Allan Neuwirth Cast: Betzy with a Z, Cashetta, Connie Cat, Edie, Hedda Lettuce, Joie Starr, June Bug, Sade Pendarvis, Yolanda In 2004, Figjam Records brought together nine of New York City’s top drag queens to re-imagine fourteen classic ABBA songs. With this film, […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton Miss Tacuarembó Director: Martín Sastre Cast: Natalia Oreiro, Sofia Silvera, Diego Reinhold, Mateo Capo As children and teenagers, Natalia and Carlos (Silvera and Oreiro, and Capo and Reinhold, respectively) were best friends living in Tacuarembó, Uruguay with dreams of getting out of their overly-religious confines and making names for themselves […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton.com Co-Directed by Ellen Seidler and Megan Siler the film is about Lola (Ashleigh Sumner), who has a great job as a photographer and a beautiful girlfriend in Casey (Jill Bennett). She also has the inability to get anywhere on time. One day, Lola is woken from a nap by a […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton.com An in-depth look at bear culture within the larger LGBT community, Bear Nation starts out by asking the question, “What is a bear?” On Toronto’s Church Street, the general consensus is that a bear is a bigger, naturally hairy man. Some note that it is more an attitude than an […]
