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Oscars 2021: The Complete Nominations List

Competing for best picture are “The Father,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mank,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Netflix’s “Mank” scored a leading 10 nominations, including nods for best director (David Fincher), best actor (Gary Oldman) and best supporting actress (Amanda Seyfried), in addition to best picture. Following behind with six nominations apiece are “The Father,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” received five nods. Two women were nominated for best director for the first time ever with Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising […]

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Film Review: “Ailey”

Filmmaker JAMILA WIGNOT’S new documentary of modern dance auteur , the tortured genius Alvin Ailey makes for such hypnotic viewing. With a combination  of  audio interviews with the man himself and some breath taking archival footage of his early performances, she gives an intimate portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of the universality of the African-American experience . Wignot bases her film around a production of “Lazarus,” a new piece in honor of Ailey, which the present day Ailey company rehearses under the direction of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR  ROBERT BATTLE and choreographer RENNIE HARRIS.  But in between she starts with Ailey’s poverty stricken childhood with his single […]

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SoCo Israeli Film Festival Goes Virtual March 12 – April 3 with Lesbian Comedy “Kiss ME Kosher”

The Jewish Community Center Sonoma County is proud to present the 6th Annual Israeli Film Festival, producedVIRTUALLY in 2021. Five new and highly acclaimed Israeli films will be available online on a dedicated, user-friendly platform. The films will be available on-demand for three weeks, March 12 – April 2. Live filmmaker talks will allow the community to interact with the creative minds behind the works. All-Access Season Passes on sale February 26. TICKETS, TRAILERS, and FILM GUIDE: WWW.JCCSOCO.ORG. Season Passes: $60 single, $80 “mishpacha” family; Single Tickets on sale March 5: $14, $24. ASIA (DRAMA) – Starring Shira Haas (Unorthodox, Shtisel) and Alena Yiv, ASIA is the story of a thirty-five-year-old Russian immigrant and single mother (named Asia). Free-spirited […]

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Frameline Announces 2020 Completion Fund Recipients

Today, Frameline—the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema—announced the recipients of the 2020 Frameline Completion Fund, which provides much-needed grants to emerging and established filmmakers to complete projects that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness. The awardees are: Fanny: The Right To Rock, directed by Bobbi Jo Hart; Hummingbirds, directed by TELOXÍCO Collective; No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, directed by Vivian Kleiman; North By Current, directed by A. Madsen Minax; and Untitled Feature Documentary, directed by Rita Baghdadi. The five projects—each receiving $5,000—were chosen out of 131 submissions that included feature films and shorts in documentary, narrative, experimental, and episodic […]

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10 Awesome Films That Feature Lesbian/Bi Women of Color

I don’t know about you but I’ve seen a lot of lists of ‘best lesbian films’ or ‘films about bi women that you must see’ which are (almost) entirely comprised of films about white women. Don’t get me wrong- those films are great- but if we don’t also talk about the films that focus on lesbians and bi women of color, we are missing out on some major talent. Fiona: As an artist, not working in either a corporate environment or an environment where I have to work with other people makes it easier for me to be who I am. I […]

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Film Review: “I Care A Lot”

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This time our villainess has dispensed with The Cool Girl and has picked up a different stereotype of femininity — The Carer. Men can’t see through her nurturing exterior. She’s a sociopath, but in a professional, polished package, so you’d never expect it. Marla Grayson acts as a legal guardian to seniors, making financial and medical decisions for those whose family’s can’t help. But Marla is actually scamming these wards of the state, putting them in expensive care homes, flipping their houses and selling their estates, alongside Fran, her investigator/analyst/fixer girlfriend. So this is a comedy? When the set up […]

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Queer Immigrant Drama “Lupe” Available New on HBO Max & HBO Latino

Film festival darling and moving LGBTQ immigrant story “Lupe,” co-directed by André Phillips (“Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary,” “This Killing Business”) & Charles Vuolo (“Rot,” “Alice Fades Away”), is available now for audiences across North America on HBO Latino and available to stream on HBO Max. “Lupe” is an extraordinary trifecta of an emotional drama that explores the topics of family, immigration and embracing one’s true identity. In the feature film debut of Boston based directing team André Phillips & Charles Vuolo,  we are introduced to the complex world of Rafael (San Francisco based Non-Binary Puerto Rican actor Rafael Albarrán in a star making turn), a Cuban immigrant struggling with their gender identity while searching for their missing sister, Isabel […]

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Witness to the horrors in Chechnya

In an era when documentaries often seem geared more toward a slick and buzzy “docu-tainment” style than to the unfiltered presentation of real-world facts and experiences, “Welcome to Chechnya” blasts you in the face like a gust of icy wind. A harrowing look at the “underground railroad” that sprung up within Russia to help the victims of the notorious “gay genocide” being perpetrated under Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, it’s a film that makes you want to look away but doesn’t let you do it. It conveys the unthinkable trauma of living in a constant state of terror while making a […]

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Netflix Tops GLAAD Media Awards List with 26 Nominations

Netflix topped the list of media award nominations announced Thursday by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD with 26, including “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for outstanding film; “Disclosure” for outstanding documentary; and “The Umbrella Academy” for outstanding drama series. HBO Max followed with nine nominations, and Amazon, Hulu and HBO each received four. The Hallmark Channel received its first nomination for “The Christmas House,” the network’s first holiday movie featuring a gay lead character. GLAAD has honored filmmakers, musicians, journalists and other media creators for three decades for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people on screen. […]

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SF IndieFest Happens February 4-21; Features new LGBT Films

The SF IndieFest is pleased to screen the following LGBTQ+ themed films as part of the 23rd anniversary of the festival which returns February 4-21, 2021. More information at www.sfindie.com. DENNIS: THE MAN WHO LEGALIZED CANNABISBrandon MooreLocal FilmThis is the story of veteran, LGBTQ+ and cannabis activist, Dennis Peron, who fought to get cannabis to HIV/AIDS patients in 1990s San Francisco despite repeated arrests and intimidation from authorities.He’s known as the “father of medical marijuana.” He was an early advocate of its health benefits for HIV/AIDS patients and, with his partner John Entwistle Jr., started the first Cannabis Buyer’s Club to […]

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