GLAAD and The Black List today announced the screenwriters and film and TV projects named to The 2022 GLAAD List of the most promising LGBTQ-inclusive scripts that have yet to be produced.
The feature writers chosen are Nik Dodani (Blue Boy), Roberto Fatal (Electric Homies), Josh Feldman (First Language), Sav Rodgers and Taylor Gates, Andres Perez-Duarte (Jorge in Paradise), Jett Garrison (Quick Quick Slow), Justin Geldzahler (The Quiet Kind), Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco, Elise H. Greven (Silent Spring), Zeke Smith (Wasps!), Karina Ansley (We Are Okay) and Q. Allan Brocka (The Young Punks).
The writers whose pilots were selected included Jose Useche (30 Days in Bayside), Noni Salma (Badass), W.A.W. Parker (The Baron), Nova Cypress Black (Blackseed), Deborah Puette (Blaze), Dana Aliya Levinson (Fraud), Jeff Locker (Spesh) and Frank Paiva (The Tell-Us-You’re-Gay Committee).
GLAAD this year expanded...
The feature writers chosen are Nik Dodani (Blue Boy), Roberto Fatal (Electric Homies), Josh Feldman (First Language), Sav Rodgers and Taylor Gates, Andres Perez-Duarte (Jorge in Paradise), Jett Garrison (Quick Quick Slow), Justin Geldzahler (The Quiet Kind), Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco, Elise H. Greven (Silent Spring), Zeke Smith (Wasps!), Karina Ansley (We Are Okay) and Q. Allan Brocka (The Young Punks).
The writers whose pilots were selected included Jose Useche (30 Days in Bayside), Noni Salma (Badass), W.A.W. Parker (The Baron), Nova Cypress Black (Blackseed), Deborah Puette (Blaze), Dana Aliya Levinson (Fraud), Jeff Locker (Spesh) and Frank Paiva (The Tell-Us-You’re-Gay Committee).
GLAAD this year expanded...
- 4/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
GLAAD and The Black List have released their third-ever specialty report celebrating LGBTQ inclusive stories.
Exclusive to Variety, the list includes work from 12 notable out creators in film, along with eight television pilots. The Black List is an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Founded by Franklin Leonard, the group has been working in concert with media watchdog GLAAD to identify and elevate underrepresented queer voices.
In only two years, nearly 50 of projects named in the previous editions of the GLAAD List have been optioned, are in production or have been released. For the 2022 edition, GLAAD also called on top-tier production houses, streamers and studios to help vet the list. These companies include Berlanti-Schechter Films, Hello Sunshine, Hillman Grad, Netflix, MGM’s Orion Pictures, Ryan Murphy Productions and Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
“The industry has finally realized after a very long time that they’re not telling the stories of various communities,...
Exclusive to Variety, the list includes work from 12 notable out creators in film, along with eight television pilots. The Black List is an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Founded by Franklin Leonard, the group has been working in concert with media watchdog GLAAD to identify and elevate underrepresented queer voices.
In only two years, nearly 50 of projects named in the previous editions of the GLAAD List have been optioned, are in production or have been released. For the 2022 edition, GLAAD also called on top-tier production houses, streamers and studios to help vet the list. These companies include Berlanti-Schechter Films, Hello Sunshine, Hillman Grad, Netflix, MGM’s Orion Pictures, Ryan Murphy Productions and Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
“The industry has finally realized after a very long time that they’re not telling the stories of various communities,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The 94th Academy Awards ignited Twitter and Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of March 21 to 27, pulling in more engagements than any other TV series, award show or broadcast — including the Super Bowl — since the chart’s launch.
The Oscars received nearly 33 million engagements during its three-hour-plus Sunday night broadcast and accompanying red carpet pre-show. A lot of that engagement revolved around the latest fashions, the discourse about cutting eight of the craft category announcements from the live broadcast, and touching wins and acceptance speeches from best supporting actor Troy Kotsur ("Coda") and best supporting actress Ariana DeBose ("West Side Story").
Ariana DeBose's historic win and gorgeous speech had me in tears.
The Oscars received nearly 33 million engagements during its three-hour-plus Sunday night broadcast and accompanying red carpet pre-show. A lot of that engagement revolved around the latest fashions, the discourse about cutting eight of the craft category announcements from the live broadcast, and touching wins and acceptance speeches from best supporting actor Troy Kotsur ("Coda") and best supporting actress Ariana DeBose ("West Side Story").
Ariana DeBose's historic win and gorgeous speech had me in tears.
- 3/28/2022
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
Stars are mourning Hollywood heartthrob and gay icon Tab Hunter on social media. The “Damn Yankees” and “Battle Cry” actor died on Sunday at age 86 in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a blood clot in his leg caused cardiac arrest, Allan Glaser, Hunter’s partner for more than three decades, confirmed to Variety.
Elton John, Zachary Quinto, William Shatner, and Diane Warren are among those who have taken to Instagram and Twitter to share their memories and condolences.
“Rip to the most handsome and special man,” John wrote on Twitter. “‘Young Love’ forever.”
Rip to the most handsome and special man. “Young Love” forever. #RIPTabHunter E xx pic.twitter.com/TIrAjpbRtw
— Elton John (@eltonofficial) July 9, 2018
Quinto, who is producing a movie about Hunter’s secret love affair with Anthony Perkins, penned a lengthy tribute to the late actor on Instagram, along with a black and white photo of a young Hunter,...
Elton John, Zachary Quinto, William Shatner, and Diane Warren are among those who have taken to Instagram and Twitter to share their memories and condolences.
“Rip to the most handsome and special man,” John wrote on Twitter. “‘Young Love’ forever.”
Rip to the most handsome and special man. “Young Love” forever. #RIPTabHunter E xx pic.twitter.com/TIrAjpbRtw
— Elton John (@eltonofficial) July 9, 2018
Quinto, who is producing a movie about Hunter’s secret love affair with Anthony Perkins, penned a lengthy tribute to the late actor on Instagram, along with a black and white photo of a young Hunter,...
- 7/9/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrities, friends and former costars are remembering actor Nelsan Ellis, who People confirmed died after complications with heart failure at the age of 39.
Known for his breakout role as Lafayette on HBO’s True Blood, Ellis had a number of high-profile credits to his name — including parts on the big screen in The Help, Secretariat, and Lee Daniels’ The Butler (where he portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr.).
His Help costar Octavia Spencer — who also starred alongside Ellis in the James Brown biopic Get On Up — was one of the first celebrities to react, writing a post on Instagram, “Just got word that we lost @nelsanellisofficial,...
Known for his breakout role as Lafayette on HBO’s True Blood, Ellis had a number of high-profile credits to his name — including parts on the big screen in The Help, Secretariat, and Lee Daniels’ The Butler (where he portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr.).
His Help costar Octavia Spencer — who also starred alongside Ellis in the James Brown biopic Get On Up — was one of the first celebrities to react, writing a post on Instagram, “Just got word that we lost @nelsanellisofficial,...
- 7/8/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Welcome to Outrage Watch, HitFix's semi-regular rundown of entertainment-related kerfuffles. Not feeling anxious enough already? Get your fix of righteous indignation below, and stay posted for outrage updates throughout the week. If you haven't seen Todd Haynes' excellent, Oscar-nominated Carol yet, you should know: there is a sex scene between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. A tasteful, passionate, low-lit sex scene between two women in love. ABC has a problem with this! Or, more accurately: ABC has a problem with a snippet of said scene playing in the Weinstein Co.'s new TV spot for the acclaimed drama. Indeed, according to a new item in Page Six, the home of steamy fare like Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder is allegedly refusing to play the spot on their network until the ad "provides more coverage on" both actresses (a request the Weinstein Co. is reportedly complying with...
- 1/30/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Four gay men figure out their romantic and sexual desires.
“I will never truly understand the gays,” murmurs Penny, the only anatomically correct female in Eating Out: The Open Weekend. She is watching as, at a neighbouring table, her best friend’s double brunch date turns porno. Watching the fifth sequel in Q Allan Brocka’s comedy film series left me feeling equally unenlightened about the gays. Every character is reducible down to a variation on the theme of sexually open, pop-culture-quoting and hot.
Which isn’t to say this 79-minute soap opera is unentertaining....
“I will never truly understand the gays,” murmurs Penny, the only anatomically correct female in Eating Out: The Open Weekend. She is watching as, at a neighbouring table, her best friend’s double brunch date turns porno. Watching the fifth sequel in Q Allan Brocka’s comedy film series left me feeling equally unenlightened about the gays. Every character is reducible down to a variation on the theme of sexually open, pop-culture-quoting and hot.
Which isn’t to say this 79-minute soap opera is unentertaining....
- 3/28/2012
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Reservoir Dogs was the first independent film I ever saw, and I remember being completely blown away by it. I think I was around 15 years old when I watched the movie on VHS. I watched it over at a friend's house, and we couldn't believe what we were seeing. I loved this film, and to this day, I still enjoy watching it. The film was released in 1992, and it took movies to a new level. The movie was not only incredibly cool, but at the time it seemed to break the rules of conventional storytelling.
This tribute includes footage for the film and interviews with people such as Scott Aukerman, Q. Allan Brocka, Edward Bunker, Kevin Eastman, F.X. Feeney, Richard Gladstein, Chris Hardwick, Monte Hellman, Michael Jace, Tad Lumpkin, Christopher McDonald, Drew McWeeny, Gregory Nicotero, Brett Ratner, Andrea Savage, Rob Schmidt, Julie Strain, SuicideGirls, Quentin Tarantino, Judy Tenuta, Steven Wright,...
This tribute includes footage for the film and interviews with people such as Scott Aukerman, Q. Allan Brocka, Edward Bunker, Kevin Eastman, F.X. Feeney, Richard Gladstein, Chris Hardwick, Monte Hellman, Michael Jace, Tad Lumpkin, Christopher McDonald, Drew McWeeny, Gregory Nicotero, Brett Ratner, Andrea Savage, Rob Schmidt, Julie Strain, SuicideGirls, Quentin Tarantino, Judy Tenuta, Steven Wright,...
- 3/7/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The second edition of Kashish- Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will focus on Israel, screening more than seven films from the country.
The Lgbt film festival will present 124 films from 23 countries, out of which 34 are in competition. The festival received more than 200 entries from around the world this year.
Kashish will be held at Cinemax Versova from May 25-29, 2011 and Alliance Francais from May 26-28, 2011.
There will be a special package of films on Anti-Bullying and gay bashing in schools followed by a panel discussion. There will also be a program called ‘Indian Masala Mix’ to showcase and promote Indian queer shorts and short filmmakers.
A new competition section for Best Narrative Feature has also been introduced in the festival besides the other competitive categories awarded last year: Best Docu Feature, Best Docu Short, Best International Narrative Short and Best Indian Narrative Short. The Best Indian queer short film at...
The Lgbt film festival will present 124 films from 23 countries, out of which 34 are in competition. The festival received more than 200 entries from around the world this year.
Kashish will be held at Cinemax Versova from May 25-29, 2011 and Alliance Francais from May 26-28, 2011.
There will be a special package of films on Anti-Bullying and gay bashing in schools followed by a panel discussion. There will also be a program called ‘Indian Masala Mix’ to showcase and promote Indian queer shorts and short filmmakers.
A new competition section for Best Narrative Feature has also been introduced in the festival besides the other competitive categories awarded last year: Best Docu Feature, Best Docu Short, Best International Narrative Short and Best Indian Narrative Short. The Best Indian queer short film at...
- 5/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to five of their favorite movies in our third annual favorite gay film poll. We wanted to see which older gay films have timeless appeal and which recent gay films you judged important enough to register in the rankings.
After voting closed we sorted through the nearly 15,000 nominations (representing over 500 individual titles) to identify your top fifty favorite gay films.
Tabulating this data is actually a bit harder than it sounds. For instance, do you know how many different ways our readers can type/abbreviate "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?" We counted about a dozen!
But we're not complaining, because the list that resulted this year is actually rather interesting.
Nine new films made their way into the rankings, and five of these are of very recent vintage. This represents a strong showing for current queer cinema.
After voting closed we sorted through the nearly 15,000 nominations (representing over 500 individual titles) to identify your top fifty favorite gay films.
Tabulating this data is actually a bit harder than it sounds. For instance, do you know how many different ways our readers can type/abbreviate "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?" We counted about a dozen!
But we're not complaining, because the list that resulted this year is actually rather interesting.
Nine new films made their way into the rankings, and five of these are of very recent vintage. This represents a strong showing for current queer cinema.
- 9/20/2010
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
And According To Me, The Winner Is!
Since every media outlet in existence including American Woodworker, Embalming & Burial and Prison Guard Weekly has already weighed in with their Emmy pics for this Sunday's award show, I thought I'd do something different. Like … take the week off. But the rest of the staff objected to that for some reason.
So instead , since this column is called the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!, I thought it would be fun to look back to the dawn of time and name the gay shows, characters, actors, writers I think most deserving of, well, let's call them the Gay Emmys, or following the lead of Kathy Griffin, the Gemmys!
Here are the categories for which I'll be selecting winners as if these nominees were competing against each other for an Emmy: Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Gay Actor Comedy, Best Gay Actor Drama, Best Writing Drama,...
Since every media outlet in existence including American Woodworker, Embalming & Burial and Prison Guard Weekly has already weighed in with their Emmy pics for this Sunday's award show, I thought I'd do something different. Like … take the week off. But the rest of the staff objected to that for some reason.
So instead , since this column is called the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!, I thought it would be fun to look back to the dawn of time and name the gay shows, characters, actors, writers I think most deserving of, well, let's call them the Gay Emmys, or following the lead of Kathy Griffin, the Gemmys!
Here are the categories for which I'll be selecting winners as if these nominees were competing against each other for an Emmy: Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Gay Actor Comedy, Best Gay Actor Drama, Best Writing Drama,...
- 8/27/2010
- by michael
- The Backlot
A movie franchise is like a shark. For it to stay alive, it has to move forward. It’s a lesson that the Eating Out franchise would do well to learn.
I liked 2004’s Eating Out a lot. The campy gay sex farce was downright revolutionary coming after decades of earnest, angsty coming out dramas (and two years before Another Gay Movie).
2006’s Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds wasn’t as successful, but it wasn’t a disaster.
But Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, now playing in limited release, is the weakest entry in the series so far. It’s not that parts of it aren’t funny. It’s just that the movie takes absolutely no chances, choosing instead to change a few details and repeat what came before in the first two movies.
Q. Allan Brocka, the creator of Logo’s Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay...
I liked 2004’s Eating Out a lot. The campy gay sex farce was downright revolutionary coming after decades of earnest, angsty coming out dramas (and two years before Another Gay Movie).
2006’s Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds wasn’t as successful, but it wasn’t a disaster.
But Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, now playing in limited release, is the weakest entry in the series so far. It’s not that parts of it aren’t funny. It’s just that the movie takes absolutely no chances, choosing instead to change a few details and repeat what came before in the first two movies.
Q. Allan Brocka, the creator of Logo’s Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay...
- 10/9/2009
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Power Up, founded in 2000 to promote the visibility of gay women in the entertainment industry, is going co-ed by adding men to its honorary board of directors.
Joining its honorary board are "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, producer Bruce Cohen, Indie PR president Jim Dobson, Showtime's Robert Greenblatt, HBO's Michael Lombardo and actor-director Peter Paige.
A nonprofit film production company and educational organization, Power Up develops, finances, produces and distributes Glbtq films and conducts educational programs, consisting of filmmaking classes, workshops and seminars.
"With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community -- women and men -- needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance," said Stacy Codikow, the organization's founder and executive director. "Although our mission was geared to gay women, the reality is that Power Up...
Joining its honorary board are "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, producer Bruce Cohen, Indie PR president Jim Dobson, Showtime's Robert Greenblatt, HBO's Michael Lombardo and actor-director Peter Paige.
A nonprofit film production company and educational organization, Power Up develops, finances, produces and distributes Glbtq films and conducts educational programs, consisting of filmmaking classes, workshops and seminars.
"With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community -- women and men -- needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance," said Stacy Codikow, the organization's founder and executive director. "Although our mission was geared to gay women, the reality is that Power Up...
- 5/26/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- [Pierre-Alexandre Despatis suffers for his cinema. Now covering his second edition, our official festival reporter and multi-function human cyborg will provide us the sights (plenty of cool pics!), the sounds, the reviews and the occasional interviews of the still very young 5th edition of the Tribeca film festival. Below are some of Pierre-Alexandre’s reviews in easy to read, insightful capsule form. Enjoy!] Boy CULTUREBased on the acclaimed novel by Matthew Rettenmund, Q. Allan Brocka's second feature Boy Culture relates the story of mr. X, a very successful hustler, or rather, 'a hustler with morals' as he labels himself. At age 26, and after a 10-year long career that started with his dentist at the time, mr. X is faced with a new complications ... emotions! From the opening credits the style of the film is very sleek and original, while being down-to-earth enough to make us feel uncomfortable as the main character is slowly falling apart and loosing grip on everything he has. The tag line of the film is "Sex pays . Love Cost". More complex than most gay romances that are often based on a guy-meets-guy, guy-loses-guy, guy-gets-back-with-guy schema, Boy Culture has a very complex and multi-faceted narrative that is greatly enhanced by the almost continuous narration of the film. Civic
- 4/30/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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