First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.
Gender and Sexuality
Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.
After #MeToo, Sundance London asks #WhatNext
At the #WhatNext breakfast organised by Sundance London, women from all areas of the film industry discussed concrete ways in which to go beyond a general awareness of sexism, and forward into actual change.
The Wound explores masculinity and colonialism
John Trengove’s debut feature explores how colonization subtly re-defined an ancient Xhosa rite of passage into manhood.
San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival showcases under-the-radar LGBTQ films
For Bay Area cinephiles, the Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival is often an opportunity to catch up with queer films that previously screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival. But it’s also a chance for the films to find an entirely new audience.
Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers
Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A Date for Mad Mary, In Between, and God’s Own Country.
The perils of writing while female
We called his film sexist. He tried to destroy our credibility. This is a story of sexism in the film journalism industry.