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5 Questions for LeAnn Erickson – I (HEART)
JACK LALANNE: A CARTOON MEMOIR (PFF31)Orig Post: 9/16/22 - I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir uses animation and a memoir structure to weave a comedic and dramatic coming out story. Employing a playful visual aesthetic and humorous tone, the film tackles serious issues, including coming out as gay in a less tolerant era...
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PIFF16 – 5 Questions for Adi Jahic – THINGS WE LIKE & Amanda Jane Stern PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT
Originally posted 5/5/23 - The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival runs May 16-20, 2023. Here's 2 Filmmaker Interviews for my 5 Questions series...
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Philly Film Fest Highlight: QFEST July 11-22, 2013
More summer film festivals in Philly! As AwesomeFest continues, and on the heels of The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival comes the 19th Annual leading LGBT film fest – QFEST With 108 films that include 46 feature films, 23 documentaries, and 39 shorts films, as well as 3 World Premieres, 4 East Coast Premieres and over 50 Philadelphia Premieres, QFest is showcasing the absolute best in LGBT cinema. As has become tradition for the festival, QFest will be also offering up films that touch on several hot button topics facing the LGBT community, immigration, sexual identity, addiction, and marriage equality. “While not prone to hyperbole, I have to say that this…
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ALBERT NOBBS
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The film Albert Nobbs (Director: Rodrigo García) celebrates woman’s ability to adapt and thrive under harsh circumstances. Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) was born a female through and through; but after being orphaned and raped at the age of 14, she realized, as a boy, she’ll have the ability to make a decent wage being a waiter/butler in establishments that cater to the high society of early 19th Century Ireland. Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) also born a woman, married an abusive husband; after leaving him, she takes on his profession as a house painter and begins to present herself as a man, even to the point…
