Arts New James Franco film to open BFI Flare The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced that BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival will this year open with the UK premiere of I AM MICHAEL. Directed by promising newcomer Justin Kelly, I AM MICHAEL stars James Franco and Zachary Quinto, and is executive-produced by Gus Van Sant. By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts Wotever DIY Film Festival recruits volunteers for two key posts The Wotever DIY Film Festival is recruiting for two voluntary posts: a sponsorship and fundraising and a press and marketing manager to help deliver this year’s festival. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts DVD FILM REVIEW: The Other The Other (Eureka blu-ray). Robert Mulligan’s psychological thriller is a rather bloodless horror about a pair of twin boys, one of whom is – as Hollywood tradition dictates – evil. It has a twist which is officially revealed at the one-hour mark (though if you haven’t spotted it within the first te By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts DVD FILM REVIEW: SHOAH (AND 4 FILMS AFTER SHOAH) This four-disc set starts with Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour ‘documentary’ about the Holocaust. The word is in inverted commas as it’s a description the director himself rejects. It’s a collage comprising interviews with victims, perpetrators and innocent, and not so innocent, bystanders of By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts DVD REVIEW: Looking Box Set The show created by Michael Lannan gives us the unfiltered experience of three friends living, loving and hoping in modern-day San Francisco By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts US film adaptation for local author Brighton-based writer and Gscene Arts Editor Michael Hootman is to have one of his short stories filmed in the States. LA-based artist Stuart Sandford has adapted the work for the big screen. XVWE will star Michael Kearns (And the Band Played On, Knots Landing), the first Hollywood actor to come out By Besi • 1 min read
Arts University of Nottingham to celebrate LGBT History Month The University of Nottingham is marking LGBT History Month with a series of events celebrating its LGBT staff and research. The events programme is a collaboration between the University’s HR and Professional Development departments, the LGBTQ Staff Network, and schools and departments across the in By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts G.L.A.M. Nights in Crouch End ArtHouse Crouch End present a monthly LGBT film event, G.L.A.M NIGHTS (Gays, Lesbians and Movies). On January 29, they will be screening the award winning romantic drama The Way He Looks. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts ShanghaiPRIDE invites submissions for 2015 Film Festival ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF), a vibrant new platform for emerging film talent, is inviting film makers from China and around the world to showcase their work during the annual ShanghaiPRIDE week, June 12-21, 2015. Organisers are looking for the best, brightest, most innovative and most engagi By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Arts ‘Pride’ the movie ‘de-gayed’ by USA distributors Pride, the award-winning movie is a true story about lesbian and gay people who helped Welsh families in the 1984 miners’ strike. For its USA release, the distributor photoshopped out all references to gay and lesbian people on the DVD cover. By Besi • 2 min read
Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove and Portslade Film Calling all budding film makers Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, is encouraging budding film makers from both Hove and Portslade to enter his national Film the House competition. Following the success of Mike’s Rock the House parliamentary competition, Film the House helps to draw attention to the impor By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Free screening of ‘How to Survive a Plague’ today World Aids Day Partnership organisers have arranged a free screening of the award winning documentary How to Survive a Plague in the Jubilee on Sunday, November 30 as part of the World AIDS Day series of events. ‘How to Survive’ a Plague is an American documentary film made in 2012 about the early y By Besi • 1 min read
