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Alex Heeney / June 22, 2021

Highlights of the 2021 InsideOut Film Festival

The 2021 InsideOut Film Festival featured some of the best LGBTQ+ films of the year, with highlights including A Sexplanation and Beyto.

Alex Heeney / June 22, 2021

InsideOut review: Beyto is an unexpected coming-of-ager

Gitta Gsell’s Beyto is more admirable for what it attempts to explore about life as a gay Turkish immigrant in Switzerland than how successful it is at achieving this

Stills of Tabitha Jackson, Pacho Velez, Penny Lane, Kirsten Johnson, and Carol Nguyen in front of a background of midnight clouds.

Orla Smith / June 18, 2021

What is creative nonfiction?

What is creative nonfiction? Why don’t we just stick with the word documentary? Through quotes from Penny Lane, Tabitha Jackson, and more, we explain what the term means to us.

Seventh Row Editors / June 16, 2021

Ep. 96: Water Lilies and Jennifer’s Body: Girlhood and compulsory heterosexuality

In this episode, we discuss two films about close female friendships between teenage girls — that may tip into sapphic love — and how they are affected when the girls are possessed by the patriarchy: Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007) and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (2009).

Orla Smith / June 15, 2021

Learning about nonfiction isn’t just for documentary fans

Orla Smith explains how putting together the 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop has changed how she thinks about both fiction and nonfiction.

A still from the film Explant, which shows Michelle Visage lying in a hospital bed, recovering from surgery. The text in front of the image reads, "Review".

Orla Smith / June 14, 2021

Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry

Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage.

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