Frameline50: Fab Queer Titles Include ‘Trial of Hein,’ ‘Test,’ ‘Before I Do’ & ‘Downtown’
Frameline, San Francisco’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest, longest-running queer film exhibition in the world, is celebrating 50 years!...
Frank J. Avella is a proud staff writer for The Contending and an Edge Media Network contributor. He serves as the GALECA Industry Liaison (Home of the Dorian Awards) and is a Member of the New York Film Critics Online. As screenwriter/director, his award-winning short film, FIG JAM, has shown in Festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Recently produced stage plays include LURED & VATICAN FALLS, both O'Neill semifinalists. His latest play FROCI, is about the queer Italian-American experience. Frank is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Frameline, San Francisco’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest, longest-running queer film exhibition in the world, is celebrating 50 years!...
German filmmaker Kai Stänicke’s exquisite debut feature, Trial of Hein (Der Heimatlose), is an intimate, unsettling exploration of identity, belonging...
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In Netflix’s super funny hit series Nobody Wants This, created by Erin Foster, Justine Lupe plays Morgan Williams, the somewhat...
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival offered a number of worthy titles from the over three dozen I was able to...