Breaking Boundaries: 7 Directors redefining queer narratives in cinema
1 year, 1 month ago

Breaking Boundaries: 7 Directors redefining queer narratives in cinema

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Here is a look at the 7 directors who gave us must watch shows and films on the queer community In the realm of cinema, certain directors have played pivotal roles in shaping narratives that amplify the voices of the queer community. From heart-warming real life tales to intense dramas, here’s a list of seven directors whose works have significantly contributed to the representation of the queer community in films and shows. Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a Straw takes us on a profound journey as it explores the life of a young woman with cerebral palsy navigating her sexuality. In the recently released Rainbow Rishta, Jaydeep Sarkar brings forth six heart-warming stories that authentically depict love across the queer spectrum.

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Curated collection of queer stories celebrates love, identity
1 week ago

Curated collection of queer stories celebrates love, identity

Deccan Chronicle  

Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the queer film Queer, starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, has been lauded for its heartfelt exploration of love, identity, and self-discovery. From Heer and Sumira’s bond that challenges the intricacies of transgender experiences to Adira’s reflection on how parental disconnection shaped her first love, this collection delves deep into the …

Screen Share | Queer films snubbed from glory
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Screen Share | Queer films snubbed from glory

The Hindu  

Now that Pride Month has wrapped up, corporate giants have shed their yassified rainbow exteriors and reverted to their standard-issue selves. So, in the spirit of authenticity, I thought it’d be fitting to recommend some truly unforgettable queer films that seemed to have been forgotten somewhere along the line, on the cusp of glory. It’s the most curious thing how …

‘I hate the word representation’: Jaydeep Sarkar
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I hate the word representation’: Jaydeep Sarkar

The Hindu  

Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit in the 90s defined queer. As someone recently told me, the best definition of being queer is ‘when you can be your absolute authentic self without having to fit the prescribed morals of society’. I’m always asked the question: ‘Is your next story a queer story?’ I feel it’s an unfair and unimaginative question. It can …

Pride Month 2024 | Queer artistes on the stories they want to see on-screen
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Pride Month 2024 | Queer artistes on the stories they want to see on-screen

The Hindu  

For long, the plea from the LGBTQIA+ community to storytellers has been this: “Let us tell our stories since our lives are largely different from how cis-gender heterosexuals perceive us.” Over the years, queer narratives in Indian cinema have seen significant steps forward; yet, what is considered queer cinema remains limited, focusing only on a few queer identities, whereas the …

Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors to play straight roles’
1 year, 1 month ago

Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors to play straight roles’

Hindustan Times  

Filmmaker and writer Jaydeep Sarkar has directed the documentary series Rainbow Rishta that released on Prime Video recently. Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. Took me 30 years to come out Explaining why he decided to take up Rainbow Rishta, Jaydeep said, “Because I had not seen anything like this. We need queer writers.” …

Pride Month | Queer cinema’s shackles in the mainstream
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month | Queer cinema’s shackles in the mainstream

The Hindu  

Queer cinema continues to be ‘othered’ into a sub-genre, with a sedate growth in mainstream cinema. “They thought that it was a joke because, in many Telugu films previously, queer ideas were used as jokes,” he says adding that it matters having producers like actor Nani and Prashanti Tipirneni, who prioritise content over earnings. “Whenever I pitch something, they say, …

Pride Month | The ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, and why it’s time for the industry to let it go
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month | The ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, and why it’s time for the industry to let it go

The Hindu  

Villanelle from Killing Eve, Lexa from The 100, Rose from Jane the Virgin, Martha from Children’s Hour, Andrew Beckett from Philadelphia, Tara Maclay from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Denise Cloyd from Walking Dead, Oberyn Martell from The Game of Thrones, and Edward Meechum from House of Cards have two things in common— they were queer and now are dead. The …

‘There aren’t enough stories about us,’ says filmmaker Onir on his new book, I Am Onir and I Am Gay
2 years, 5 months ago

‘There aren’t enough stories about us,’ says filmmaker Onir on his new book, I Am Onir and I Am Gay

The Hindu  

In their trailblazing memoir Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi notes that “speaking to other people… requires channelling who or what I am into language they can understand. Very empowering!” While today’s generation has access to popular culture with increasing queer representation, Onir finds there’s only a “marginal increase”. Moreover, even if he does give someone …

LGBTQ+ characters in films are not just for pink washing, but for substantial pivotal roles
2 years, 7 months ago

LGBTQ+ characters in films are not just for pink washing, but for substantial pivotal roles

Firstpost  

In conversation with filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan on KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival on inclusivity in cinema and how it is time to portray LGBTQ stories with a lot more empathy and a sense of hope. Sridhar Rangayan, the festival director says, “I truly believe in the power of cinema to change perceptions of the general population towards LGBTQ+ community …

The queer story on OTT: It is still work in progress, says the film fraternity
2 years, 9 months ago

The queer story on OTT: It is still work in progress, says the film fraternity

Hindustan Times  

The digital platform is quickly emerging as a medium for narrating stories from the queer community, whether through the main characters or sub plotlines. From His Storyy to Call My Agent: Bollywood, queer stories are gaining popularity in the digital space “It is great that LGBTQAI+ stories are being met with so much warmth by the audience, and that actors, …

LGBTQ Film And TV Writers To Hollywood: 'Dig Deeper And Do Better' On Representation
3 years, 6 months ago

LGBTQ Film And TV Writers To Hollywood: 'Dig Deeper And Do Better' On Representation

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING LGBTQ film and TV writers want to remind Hollywood gatekeepers that progress on queer representation has been slow and incremental at best, issuing an open letter Friday to urge the industry to “dig deeper and do better.” “It is present-day Hollywood’s responsibility to make right all the harm caused by Hollywood’s past,” the leaders of the LGBTQ+ …

Pride Month 2021: Seven coming-of-age films about love, identity and the queer experience
3 years, 6 months ago

Pride Month 2021: Seven coming-of-age films about love, identity and the queer experience

The Hindu  

Adolescence is often times a turbulent whirlwind of self discovery, disorientation and disquietude. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it.” ― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Queer coming-of-age cinema, a genre quickly increasing …

What's the Perfect Ingredient to Make a Queer Film in 2021 That is Not 'Laxmii' or 'Pati Patni Aur Panga'?
3 years, 11 months ago

What's the Perfect Ingredient to Make a Queer Film in 2021 That is Not 'Laxmii' or 'Pati Patni Aur Panga'?

News 18  

In the tedious and strained equation between the queer community and the mainstream film industry, 2020 began with a glimmer of hope. “If they don’t know us and our rainbow of diversity, what would they know about our hurt, pain, triumphs and love,” said a queer anthropologist studying minority representation in the mainstream. Filmmaker and author, Tanuja Chandra, speaking at …

GLAAD report: Last year’s movies failed to include enough queer people of color
4 years, 5 months ago

GLAAD report: Last year’s movies failed to include enough queer people of color

LA Times  

Last year, not a single major studio movie included a transgender character, according to GLAAD. “America’s greatest cultural export are our films,” GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis told The Times. … This is a time to double down on telling people of color’s stories, both queer and cis.” Movies Review: An enlightening look at transgender representation in Hollywood, then and …

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