When I first saw the trailer for the film Victoria and Abdul, I felt a bit sick. It looked like yet another nostalgic, royalist whitewashing of Britain’s oppressive colonial history. […]
Rob Eagle: Unsettling White Colonial History Read More »
What is your experience of making films and getting them shown at festivals? For me, making a film is an amazing experience. My favourite parts are definitely the conception of
Diego Carvalho Sá: Relatability & Nudity on Camera Read More »
It doesn’t happen too often that the border between experimental and fictional film is torn down. Of course, there are a lot of people who started in experimental film making
Daniel Kulle: Shooting Experimental Fictional Film Read More »
The mikveh is a cleansing ceremony for Jewish brides, performed as a purifying ritual bath before marriage. In Gomez’ film, Mikveh, this ceremony is reinterpreted by two married men. In
Adrian Garcia Gomez: Reinterpreting the Mikveh Read More »
What led you to pursue documentary filmmaking? I’ve always been engaged in communications and growing community and documentary filmmaking is a clear form of both. I thrive on the creativity
Catherine Gund: Documentaries and the Urgency of Representation Read More »
“Do you prefer shagging men or women?”, Hedi asks Iva as they both lie on her floor mattress, Hedi smoking, Iva on her front clutching the sheets beneath her. “It’s
Jacob Engelberg: Bisexual* Representation and Cinema’s Sexual Paradigms Read More »
For decades in film and television, transgender people were often portrayed as villains with their gender identity used as a way of making them appear crazy and unstable. These days,
Mabz Beet: Changing Trans Representation on Screen Read More »
How did you get into filmmaking and what drives you? I am a scriptwriter first and foremost and have recently branched out into filmmaking. What has always interested me is
Alberto Amoretti: Telling Stories of Identity Read More »
When I met Erin Allday, the journalist whose idea it was to start reporting on long-term AIDS survivors, I was attending a working group requesting the city for funding to
Harry Breaux: At 72, Surviving the AIDS Epidemic Read More »
Gender has always been a challenge for me. As a child, my mother wanted to dress me in pink, lacy dresses that horrified me. No one was thrilled with my
Cyn Lubow: Trans/Gender Experience of Birthing Children Read More »
