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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One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there […]

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In HtN’s review of Jane Schoenbrun’s feature directorial debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Mike S. Ryan wrote “One gets a sense right away that the filmmaker understands that a personal story structure is essential to a unique […]

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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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One of the most exciting, daring new voices to come out of Sundance this year is director D. Smith. Her feature directorial debut, Kokomo City, is a black-and-white-shot documentary that dives into the lives of four black trans sex workers […]

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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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Sam Feder’s Disclosure arrived on Netflix this week, a film I feel in love with at Sundance. At the time I said Feder had made a film that was both significant and necessary. I believe this is a film that […]

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