Recently, I had the honour and the delightful experience to speak with Kandace Siobhan Walker, award winning-writer, filmmaker, and a recent recipient of AZ Mag’s Creative Fund. Kandace is funny, honest, insightful, and inspiring. Our interview touches on themes of creativity, inspiration, artistic practice, and craft, winning awards and her new short film Cleaning Ladies. […]
Tag: film
It’s a Sin Proves The Unifying Power Of Telling LGBTQ+ Stories From Different Perspectives
It’s a Sin, a Channel 4 series exploring the 1980s AIDS crisis through the eyes of a patchwork group of young Londoners, has rightfully captured the attention and hearts of UK audiences in the fortnight since its release. The show follows housemates Ritchie, Roscoe, Ash, Colin and Jill, as they build friendships and navigate life […]
Grace Barber-Plentie – The Curator Envisioning a Fat Utopia
Depictions of fat women in TV & film have rarely done them any justice. Whether it’s the mockery of fat Black women seen in Tyler Perry’s Madea and Eddie Murphy’s ‘Norbit’ or various fat characters sidelined to the funny best friend (à la Kim in Moesha), the representation of fatness in TV and film has […]
Filmmaker Pacheanne Anderson on Creating Films Around Mental Health, Politics and Being A Queer Person of Colour
The two films I made ‘QITPOC: The Elegy’ and A Somewhat (Self)-portrait of a Sex Symbol’ have been based on my experience living as a young QTIPOC in a patriarchal white society. I made these films as a mode of therapy and a way to connect to other people who have had similar experiences. For […]
Review: The Watermelon Woman (1996) – 20th Anniversary Restored
The Watermelon Woman is a cult classic film amongst the LGBT+ community. A landmark film directed, written, edited and starring Cheryl Duyne, The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film directed by a black lesbian. The stimulating and open-hearted film follows Cheryl back in 1993 on her quest to make a film about a black actress playing the […]
5 Queer PoC Filmmakers Reinventing Film
The black cinematic experience is changing and not just by the hands of straight poc but also queer poc. The reinvention of black films in the last ten years has reached new levels of success, dominating the box office earning millions worldwide, gaining critical acclaim and winning prestigious awards in the top categories for film. With 2019 around […]
Why I Made A Film About Being Intersex
Coming from an Asian background I always lived with a fear that I could never be accepted and would be banished from my community if anyone ever found out. I could barely accept myself – I never would have imagined that there were millions of people out there who were in a similar situation to […]
Get Out: Why Jordan Peele’s horror is the film we needed now more than ever
It’s been a long time since I left the cinema with the kind of giddy, unexpected satisfaction that I experienced after seeing Jordan Peele’s Get Out, a film that is in equal parts entertaining and thought-provoking. Arriving on UK screens riding a wave of mostly positive reviews, Peele’s feature-film directing debut has already broken box […]
Moonlight Review: A Heart Wrenching And Beautiful Film
Moonlight is the heart wrenching and beautiful film, that everyone should watch. It is not very often that a cinematic masterpiece has a black, gay character at the forefront of the story but times are changing. Adapted by Barry Jenkins from, Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, a play written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. It is […]
An Interview With Be Steadwell
Multi talented triple threat, Singer, Songwriter and Filmmaker Be Steadwell is currently in the UK from her home in Washington DC, promoting her album Jaded and debut film Vow Of Silence – The musical, magical modern day queer fairly tale. The film is about heartbroken composer Jade who, after a break-up takes a vow of […]