Pinch of Gay at Chicago’s Latino Film Festival

We latinos aren’t known for our wide acceptance of the homosexualisms, and unless you are both brown and same sex inclined, I never assume the most open mind. This year, a documentary by Judith McCray explores lives of some G’s, L’s and T’s (no B’s listed in the film description, sorry, wait, there is snibbet [...]

still black

Chicago-based film makers Awilda Rodriguez Lora and Kortney Ryan Ziegler are wrapping up their first documentary, still black, a portrait of black transmen and have roughly cut a trailer (see above). From stillblackfilm.org :
still black is a feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the [...]

This Just In ~ Actor Slash Model Film Project Fundraiser !!

You already know about Actor Slash Model’s Bi-monthly queer film screening, Threat Level. This Thursday, Simon and Madsen are raising money for their film project with a uber mega super blitz. The Empty Bottle will be inundated with all the queers you can shake a silicon stick at, a slew of queer bands and performers [...]

Robert Mapplethorpe Doc

From the Chicago Reader:
Mapplethorpe may have gotten all the headlines, but the real center of this video documentary is Samuel Wagstaff Jr., the wealthy art curator and collector who became the photographer’s longtime lover and sugar daddy. Given Wagstaff’s relative obscurity and the close relationship between the two men, writer-director James Crump may have felt [...]

Actor Slash Model

ACTOR SLASH MODEL plays at Reggies Music Joint (it’s new and has great food!), 2105 S. State St.
one block east of the Chinatown Red Line stop this Sunday, January 27, 7 pm with Johnny Rumble and The Polymer Twins!
Actors Slash Model was awarded a Fire This Time grant in Dec 2007 to make a [...]

Film Schmilm

*Candy Darling
From November 16-22, Facets Multi Media is having a retrospective of Andy Warhol’s films. Refreshingly, they are mostly showing his narratives and shying away from the often drooled on but ultimately snoozey screen tests. Lonesome Cowboys is a naked mock-cowboy w/ drag story loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, another I, A Man, has [...]