Arts Queer East to team up with Lewes Depot and Fabrica Gallery in October Queer East is a LGBTQ+ film festival that showcases rarely-seen queer cinema from East and Southeast Asia By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Student jury to choose winning film from 12 new features chosen for Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022 Twelve new feature films will be shown during the 16th annual Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival in October, including three films directed by previous Iris Prize alumni. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts Shortlist of 15 short films competing for LGBTQ+ Iris Prize Best British award revealed Organisers of the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival have announce the shortlist of 15 films competing for the Iris Prize Best British Supported by Film4 award. Also revealed are the two juries for the main prizes… By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Iris LGBTQ+ Film Festival unveils the 36 international shorts competing for £30,000 Iris Prize ‘The uniting factor in all 36 films is an exhilarating celebration of lives of LGBTQ+ people across the world’ By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts Scene Unseen: intimate new cabaret about identity and sexuality available to watch online in September A Royal & Derngate, Northampton and English Touring Opera (ETO) co-production, Scene Unseen, which will be available to view online on ETO at Home from 9am on Monday, September 12, is a new musical about identity, sexuality, and what makes us who we are. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Boys On Film 22 – Love To Love You Brian Butler finds gems in Peccadillo Pictures latest Queer collection By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts Queer films and narratives at Genesis Cinema’s inclusive Fragments Festival Fragments Festival, an inclusive film festival created by London’s Genesis Cinema, is to run September 29 – October 2. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts New film, KINDRED, based on true story of UK’s first openly non-binary parent to adopt a child to feature at Venice International Film Festival The remarkable true story of the first openly non-binary parent to successfully adopt a child in the UK has inspired a stunning new immersive film, KINDRED, starring Hollyoaks’ Ki Griffin, which will feature at Venice International Film Festival. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts The Vito Project announces ‘Imitations of Life: Deconstructing ‘camp’ in classic Hollywood’ Following the success of its Spring season, THE VITO PROJECT LGBTQ+ FILM CLUB returns to the Cinema Museum London with a new series of regular Sunday screenings providing different generations of LGBTQ+ people and friends an alternative safe space to socialise, watch great films and share ideas. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Digbeth cinema to screen ‘MAISIE’ documentary Directed by Lee Cooper, MAISIE tells the story of David Raven who, with 50 years in the business, still performs as Maisie Trollette. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Arts MAISIE, documentary on Britain’s oldest drag artiste, to show at Duke of York’s Picturehouse on Friday, August 5 MAISIE, a documentary on Britain’s oldest working drag artiste Maisie Trollette, is to be screened at Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton on Friday, August 5. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Donna Brian Butler finds a truly remarkable trans heroine By Brian Butler • 2 min read
