Arts STRANGER BY THE LAKE: Review This is an unnerving psychological thriller which takes place entirely in an idyllic lakeside cruising ground. Its characters seem almost unmoored from society – we have almost no idea of how they live the rest of their lives – and so the cruising ground comes to represent a sort of alternative soci By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Film FIRE IN THE BLOOD – BAFTA Longlist Nominee for Best Documentary First-time director Dylan Mohan Gray, tells the story of an unlikely group of people who took on giant pharmaceutical companies and major Western governments to stop ‘the crime of the century’ and save millions of lives in a tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’. Following the global campaign to o By Besi • 1 min read
Film Oska Bright Award Winners 2013 The winners of this year’s Oska Bright Film Festival, which celebrates and promotes films made by people with learning disabilities, were announced at a ceremony at the Corn Exchange, Brighton on Tuesday, November 19. Awards were given to six short films selected from a range of entries from Austral By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Blue Is The Warmest Colour: Review Film review by Lily Pritchard Acclaimed director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest film, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, is a lesbian coming-of-age drama between two female leads. It was the star of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Chairman of the jury, St By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts ‘Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine’ to screen at IDFA in Amsterdam The documentary ‘Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine’ launches the first-ever Gay Night at IDFA in Amsterdam with six screenings from November 21 – December 1 2013 The film – takes an intimate look into the life of 21-year-old American student Matt Shepard who was tragically murdered in 1998 because h By Besi • 2 min read
Film ANONYMOUS PEOPLE : Film premiere at St Peter’s Church The Anonymous People, a feature documentary about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, will be premiered in Brighton at St Peter’s Church on Friday, November 22. Hosted by Recovery@StPeters, the showing of this inspiring film, which is to By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Film How to Survive a Plague How to Survive a Plague, a documentary about the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the efforts of ACT UP and Treatment Action Group (TAG), will be showing at Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton on Sunday, November 10. Despite having no scientific training, the self-made activists of ACT UP and TAG infilt By Besi • 1 min read
Film Through Her Eyes Through Her Eyes, is a short film campaign started by a transgender woman from North Somerset. The film is attracting a lot of attention for its unusual and innovate portrayal of trans* life, and aims to take the audience into the mind of a trans* women, showing them what it is like to see the world By Besi • 2 min read
Film Brighton film student wins award A current student at Brighton Film School is part of a small film crew that has won a prestigious online film competition. Charlie Bentley, 21 and originally from Chichester, is currently in the second year of a 2-year Higher National Diploma course at the specialist film and moving image school loc By Besi • 2 min read
Film LGBT titles to be shown at Raindance Film Festival This years Raindance Film Festival, Europe’s largest independent film festival, will include many LGBT titles shown in central London. The festival, which runs from September 25 to October 6, will for the first time feature Web Fest, a micro-festival running from September 28-29, with content made e By Besi • 1 min read
Film Brighton director wins Porna Award 2013 Brighton-based feminist film director, producer, author and photographer Petra Joy’s film A Taste of Joy has been awarded the Porna Award 2013 from an all-female panel of judges from Dutch TV channel Dusk!. As one of the pioneers of the movement to make pornography for women, the German born directo By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Oska Film Festival 2013 Oska Bright is the world’s first and only festival of short films made by people with learning disabilities – that is produced, managed and presented by a learning disabled team. 2013 is the sixth edition of this biennial festival and looks set to be the biggest and most extraordinary yet with more By Besi • 2 min read
