Elliot Page has been nothing but forthcoming about his transition. After a best-selling memoir detailing his experiences, Page is now ready to explore the issues trans people face on-screen in the new drama Close To You. Directed by BAFTA-winner Dominic Savage, […]

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The relationship of two longtime friends is challenged in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice. Told from a queer and trans perspective, it centers on two reunited college best friends (Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Marianne Rendón), one trans and one straight/cisgender, […]

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Sundance breakout Mutt, a queer coming-of-age drama, is finally getting its release stateside this summer. It got an ecstatic audience reception at its world premiere, and showed that a star is born in Lio Mehiel who won the U.S. Dramatic […]

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“We have heard the story told by the hunter, and not by the lion, and not by the lions who not only fought back but got away,” Angelica Ross says in the trailer for Chase Joynt’s experimental documentary, Framing Agnes. […]

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I met with Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas (Mars et Avril) on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss her collaboration on Adam Keleman‘s first feature, Easy Living (which I also reviewed). The film is a charming dramedy about a thirtysomething door-to-door […]

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I met with writer/director Adam Keleman (winner of the 2012 Hammer to Nail short-film contest, for his movie Long Days) and his star, Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas (Mars et Avril), separately, both on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW, to […]

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