Young Emerging Actors Assembly presents Demo Reel Screening event – March 24, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, March 23, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Film, Toronto

Young Emerging Actors Assembly (YEAA) are presenting a Demo Reel Screening on Friday March 24th, 2023. This free in-person event features nine demo reels submitted by members, presented in front of Casting Associates Kalene Osborne (Lewis Kay Casting) and Emily Johnston (Lisa Parasyn Casting). Invitations are also extended to up-and-coming Directors, Producers, and Casting Directors […]

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Three new LGBTQ+ international features from Outplay Films

posted Wednesday, March 22, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Outplay Films is an independent company based in Paris, France that’s exclusively focused on international sales, co-production and distribution of LGBTQ+ content. Below are three of their most recent releases now available to stream online. I Love You More After a year of online pillow-talk, Ben, a shy Kosovar teen, is exhilarated to finally meet […]

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CannExpo – consumer cannabis event to educate and entertain – March 24 to 26, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Toronto

The first-ever CannExpo, a cannabis consumer and retail show, takes place at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place in Toronto from March 24-26, 2023, and promises to educate, entertain, and stir up more passion for legal cannabis consumption. Cannabis has been legal in Canada for four years, yet, there is still stigma and myths associated with […]

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Shorts in Conversation – catch flicks by emerging queer filmmakers at Ace Hotel Toronto’s new monthly screening series

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

Ace Hotel Toronto has launched a new monthly film screening series, Shorts In Conversation, that creates space for both cinema and dialogue. Each month, an organization curates films and filmmakers to discuss the craft, taste, and journey of putting thoughts into moving images. Toronto’s queer film festival, Inside Out, has been chosen as the host […]

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Like Me – young lost soul navigates the realities of life

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In Like Me, Tom, a high school senior, is kicked out of his family home, and finds himself in a unusual relationship with an older fashion photographer whom he is modelling for, while secretly being in love with his close friend Gilad. The debut feature from writer-director Eyal Kantor had its world premiere at the […]

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Queendom – radical queer performance artist struts the streets of Moscow

posted Sunday, March 19, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In Queendom, Gena Marvin, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism, while at the same time putting her life in danger. She dresses in otherworldly costumes made from found objects and tape, and protests the government on the streets […]

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Ithaka – Wikileaks documentary explains how the truth will (not) set you free

posted Saturday, March 18, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Toronto

Ithaka is a strange and convoluted documentary about the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, While it does divulge some inside information and background on the details that led to the detainment of Assange, it comes across as more a feature on his […]

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Rainbow Ski Weekend at Blue Mountain Village – Activities For All Both On And Off The Slopes – March 24 to 26, 2023

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Queer, Sports, Toronto, Trans

Blue Mountain Village Association‘s (BMVA) fifth annual Rainbow Ski Weekend is back again taking place on the grounds of Blue Mountain Resort. It’s Ontario’s only gay ski weekend, and there’s plenty to do both on and off the slopes, whether you ski, play, and slay (sleigh?), there are numerous fun events taking place throughout the weekend. Get […]

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Cram – think twice about delaying your next project

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

Were you the one that waited until the last minute to study for a test, then had the Cram everything in last minute? We all do what we gotta do to pass – except Marc. Desperate to finish his final paper, he struggles to cram all night in the library. After dozing off, Marc awakens […]

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Egghead and Twinkie – an Asian American Gen Z road trip comedy about coming out

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Egghead and Twinkie tells the story of seventeen-year-old Twinkie, who takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the help of her nerdy best friend, Egghead, after coming out to her parents. As they make their way across the country, Egghead wrestles with his unrequited feelings for Twinkie, while Twinkie learns […]

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