LGBTQ films
Finding My Voice as a Gay Asian Immigrant Filmmaker – and Giving Voice to Others
Devin Fei-Fan Tau on the long life journey that brought him to making his new, George Takei-narrated documentary, Who's on Top?
Cinema of the Interior
For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.
Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking
Dramarama writer-director Jonathan Wysocki on the perils and pitfalls of making work that draws from one’s own life.
Remembering Artie
An appreciation of pioneering gay filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. by Emmy Award-winning director Greta Schiller.
The Power of Being Seen
As Pride Month ends, writer-director Morgan Jon Fox shares his feelings on representation and intersectionality in LGBTQ film.
I Know the Ghosts: Employing Grandmother Wisdom in My Debut Feature
First-time filmmaker Bo McGuire on how he used “skillful will” to make his Tribeca-winning docudrama Socks on Fire.
Maybe It’s Time to Give Up
The hard road James Sweeney traveled to make his debut feature Straight Up is not necessarily one that everyone will survive.
How Portrait of a Lady on Fire Radically Reimagines the Past
Filmmaker Cosmo Collins Salovaara on Céline Sciamma's revolutionary lesbian period piece, which presents a very contemporary take on the 18th century.
Love in the Time of Diaspora
Manila Death Squad director Dean Colin Marcial looks at Isabel Sandoval’s new film, Lingua Franca, through a distinctly personal lens.
Why Beyond the Hills is the Most Underrated Queer Film of the Decade
Jeremy Hersh, who's currently crowdfunding his debut feature The Surrogate on Kickstarter, makes the case for Cristian Mungiu's 2012 drama.
The Cinema of the Other
David Charles Rodrigues on how his personal history inspired him to make Gay Chorus Deep South a film for mainstream America.
I Make a Film, the Film Makes Me
Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli on So Pretty, a fictional autobiography which came to shape her and how she saw herself and the world.











