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qFLIX Philly LGBTQ 2016 Film Festival Coverage (Indie filmmaking)
PHILLY’S LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL qFLIX Opens July 5 and runs to July 10, 2016 POST UPDATE: 7/11/16 I wish I could have gotten to a few more films and at least one or two events during the festival, but it came during a busy week personally. I did support the festival with many, many social media blasts throughout the 6 days. MY BELOW FESTIVAL COVERAGE INCLUDES: Nuttin’ But Love for the bio/doc WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED Mini Review of HARA KIRI w/ Video Q&A of director Henry Alberto and actor Jesse Pimentel Mini Review of Opening Night Film PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW w/ Video Q&A of director J.C. Falcón & actor…
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QFEST Opening Film: G.B.F.
Last night QFEST (LGBT Film Festival in Philadelphia) opened with G.B.F. an acronym for Gay Best Friend. This movie could quite possibly be the Clueless for this generation and Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars) today’s Alicia Silverstone. G.B.F. (which premiered at TriBeCa 2013) is set in a high school where no kid has yet to come out. However, there is a gender equality organization looking for someone to defend. There’s also 3 major school cliques – one run by a perfect blonde “mean girl” bombshell, Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse); a fierce, black, drama queen, Caprice (Xosha Roquemore); and a “purity” Mormon, Shley (Andrea Bowen). All three of these girls know the…
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Commentary – BEGINNERS
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at Mike Mill’s BEGINNERS Beginners is a love story: love between a father and son / son and mother / a man and woman / a man and his father’s dog. Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is a handsome, talented commercial artist, who has recently lost his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer) to cancer. The story is told in a timeline that jumps around between Oliver’s present in which he’s falling in love with a winsome, French actress, Anna (Mélanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds), his childhood memories of a slightly off kilter mother (Mary Page Keller), and a time of about 3-5 years ago, when his 75 year old…
