Film
SPOTLIGHT ON: Queer East Film Festival
Brian Butler finds another film festival to jump in to
Film
LGBTQ+ short film Stroke of Fate, starring Sheila McCarthy and Nathaniel Bacon, now available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK
Stroke of Fate details a moment of time in a hospital waiting room. A mother and her gay son wait for news of their loved one’s prognosis. Old family wounds come to the surface under the pressure of the situation.
Film
Blue Finch Film Releasing presents queer horror ‘Swallowed’ on digital download on 24 April
From the director of The Ruins, Swallowed is a queer horror nightmare about drugs, bugs and the extremes we are willing to endure to protect the ones we love.
Arts
FILM REVIEW: BFI Flare Festival- Golden Delicious
Brian Butler explores a Canadian/Chinese coming of age love story
Arts
Review – BFI Flare Film Festival: Big Boys
Brian Butler finds Corey Sherman’s coming out comedy endearing
Arts
BFI Flare Film Review: Egghead and Twinkie
Brian Butler watches a coming-of-age road trip film with a twist
Film
Queer filmmaking session with Faizan Fiaz at Queer Britain on Sunday, March 12
Join award-winning filmmaker and arts video journalist Faizan Fiaz for a session on queer filmmaking
Arts
In The Middle: new film features first trans football referee, Lucy Clark
Produced and directed by Greg Cruttwell, In The Middle follows a diverse group of match officials as they attempt to cope with the rigours of running matches in grassroots football.
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON: 37th BFI Flare Film Festival
Brian Butler looks at what’s on offer at the latest LGBTQ+ film festival
Arts
Kath Duncan’s ‘Liberty’ to show at Hatcham House during Pride Month
Liberty, Kath Duncan’s untold story of the struggle for civil rights, which tells for the first time how LGBTQ+, working class Black History activists from Lewisham in South East London fearlessly took on the power of the State, the King, and the UK legal system, is to show at Hatcham House, London
Arts
“Powerful and timely” LGBTQ+ film ‘The Perpetrators’ to show at BFI Flare this month
The Perpetrators collages moody analogue film, original animation and archival materials in a dreamy autofiction of queer darkness that ponders the correlations between 1980s Stranger Danger, the construction of homosexual identity and the institution of the family.
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON: Maisie Trollette film gets a Brighton showing
Brian Butler looks forward to another showing of a film on a Brighton legend