Arts & Entertainment

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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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Revry Celebrates Women All Month Long With Films, Series, and Music Videos.

Revry celebrates Women’s History Month with an entire March calendar highlighting incredible female Queer content made by and for the community.   “Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day is such an important time at Revry. As a company that is co-founded by two women of color we have always made sure that we’ve highlighted and honored queer women as a part of our mission” says Revry Co-Founder Alia J. Daniels. “This March we are excited to particularly highlight titles on Revry that honor the experience of Queer women, including and especially our trans sisters who for far too long haven’t received […]

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World Book Day: 14 LGBT+ inclusive books that every child and young adult deserves to read

Today (4 March) marks the World Book Day 2021 celebration. The day aims to promote reading to children across the globe as well as offering every young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.ADVERTISING Both World Book Day and schools will be promoting and recommending different books for children to read in celebration of the day. So with this in mind we’ve decided to join in and recommend a handful of LGBT+ inclusive books that can be enjoyed by kids and young adults. From picture books, to fairy tales and titles that aim to educate both adults and […]

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Fran Lebowitz: Professional New Yorker

I suppose it makes sense that when I sat at my desk to write about Pretend It’s a City, Martin Scorsese’s hugely entertaining series on Fran Lebowitz, I stared at the screen most of the afternoon without pressing a key. After all, Lebowitz has made an entire career out of having writer’s block. After her highly successful Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, she went on to write only one book, a children’s book called Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas, over the next three decades. Her celebrity has been marked as much by what she hasn’t been able to do as much as what […]

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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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Winners Announced for 1st Live TV Broadcast of 2021 Queerties on Revry

Elliot Page, Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, Sarah Paulson, Schitt’s Creek, The Prom& Putting On Top The Winner’s List with Bright Light Bright Light Performance and Special Awards to Angelica Ross and Billy Eichner Free Queer TV network, Revry, was thrilled to partner with Q.Digital and Lexus for the first-ever television broadcast of Q.Digital’s Queerties, the annual award show produced by entertainment site Queerty,celebrating the best in LGBTQ culture and media this Wednesday February 24 on Revry. The show is now available to view for free On-Demand on Revry. Elliot Page, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, Sarah Paulson, Schitt’s Creek, The Prom and Putting On were top winners at this year’s award show […]

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