The latest news from Queerbee, articles, reviews and interviews with filmmakers and directors.
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Interview with award winning director Kate Johnston: Stormcloud
Kate Johnston’s gentle comedy Stormcloud follows Vi’s emotional storm when two born-again Christians knock on her door in a vulnerable moment, is based on Johnston’s own experiences when she was in a similar predicament. Although the real story was no more than a polite exchange on the doorstep, in Stormcloud Johnston explores what if she’d…
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Interview: Krissy Mahan, Director: ‘My Aunt Mame’
Having access to new digital technology is only part of the solution to making great film , you still need time, and skill, and a fresh way of telling a story. In the run up to the Identity programme of short films at Curzon Soho, we asked filmmakers to share with us the stories behind…
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Het Washing – A Question of Morals?
The feature film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (dir. Angela Robinson, 2018) is based on the true story of the creators of the Lie Detector test and the DC character Wonder Woman. Criticised in reviews and by the Marston family for queering up the relationship between Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne, it is exactly…
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Mark Pride In Our Community
As the flags are flying for Pride month this June, news reports remind us why it’s still necessary to stand up and fight for equality even in 2019. There is safety in numbers and relief through knowing we are not alone in facing micro-aggressions and physical threats. While we now have the protection of the…
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Interview: Karleen Pendleton-Jimenez, Director: Butch Coyolxauhqui
Body image is a fundamental part of our identity and a theme which reoccurs throughout LGBTIQ+ narratives. In her film Butch Coyolxauhqui, which is screening as part of the Identity programme of short films (click here for tickets), Director Karleen Pendleton draws on mythology to explore how we can re-create a sense of self. “The…
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Interview with multi-award-winning film director Jake Graf (Dusk)
When we know ourselves to be something different to the available models of gender, sexuality and love, our identities often take us into unmapped territories, place us at odds with the world, and this is also our history. Jake Graf discusses the importance of short films in telling our stories in the lead up to…
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QueerBee Identity programme at Curzon Soho
Join us for 9 short films direct from LGBTIQ+ filmmakers plus Q&A with featured filmmakers Jake Graf (Dusk) and Louise Marie Cooke (Pillow Talk). 6 June at 6.30pm, Click here to book tickets. Click here for trailer. See list below for details of the films included in the programme: “When we know ourselves to be…
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Happy Valentine’s Day – The demise of my heterosexuality and adventures in Lesbiana
As a 33-year-old single mum, I had fallen in (totally unrequited) love with a female friend. It mirrored other experiences in my past, it was too strong to ignore and to cope with. I crept around the local library, borrowing books to read in secret. So much of the material was gloomy and so many…