Category: LGBT
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Give It To Me (Courtney Hope Therond)
One pleasure of watching and reviewing the work of burgeoning female filmmakers is the juxtaposition you feel in how sexual relationships are portrayed in their…
Everything Everywhere All at Once Dominates Dorian Awards
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once has dominated this year’s Dorian Awards from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics with…
Everything Everywhere All at Once Leads Dorian Awards Nominations
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once leads this year’s Dorian Awards nominations from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics with…
Berlinale 2021 Dispatch- Teddy Award (Miguel’s War, Genderation, Bliss)
Eliane Raheb’s documentary Miguel’s War is based on impressions, and how to construct a life around hiding the past. Based on a chance encounter the…
Berlinale 2021 Review: Petite Maman
At a recent virtual event for Berlinale Talents, writer-director Céline Sciamma was given a moment to close the q&a. “You can do anything,” the interviewer,…
Sundance 2021 Review: The World To Come
An adaptation of a short story by Jim Shepard, The World to Come meanders through Upstate New York in the mid-19th century. Mona Fastvold’s film…
The Haunting Queer Reading of The Bride of Frankenstein
Out of the genres within cinema, none have quite historically served as an expression of the deeper more hidden thoughts of society as much as…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma)
The low rumble of an audience is accompanied by the crash of water, where a young woman is painstakingly poised, unreachable. Her young admirer waits…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
20 years ago, the world looked very different, especially in regard to LGBTQ+ rights. 11 months before But I’m a Cheerleader premiered at the Toronto…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Sahera Khan tackles key issues with ‘Faith’
One of the 20 films featuring in the Competition Selection at this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival is Sahera Khan‘s short film Faith. If you tuned…
1994 in Film: Priscilla and the Original Drag Race
For the last decade, drag culture has almost become entirely mainstream, largely thanks to the glitz, glamour, and tea-spilling of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Which has…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #41: More Essential LGBT Film Writing – and Welcome Sarah
Fresh off the 99th Filmotomy Podcast, I want extend welcome arms to our newest addition to the team – Sarah AKA @peppermintsodas. Already on board…
Filmotomy Podcast 99: Wrapping Up LGBT Pride Month
Welcome back after three months away. With just one away from the big 100, and with days remaining of Pride Month 2020, the Filmotomy Podcast…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #40: Happy Pride Month
The Reading, Writing, Arithmetic mantra was established at Filmotomy to issue regular, insightful links from the film world that were certainly worth repeating. It’s been…
