Toronto Black Film Festival includes 125 films from 20 countries – Feb 15 to 20, 2023

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online, Toronto

The Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF) celebrates its 11th anniversary with a return to IN-PERSON programming, and an online component, from February 15-20, 2023/ Created by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, TBFF brings innovative, powerful, diverse, and bold programming to Toronto audiences, while also maintaining online accessibility.    The Festival presents 125 films from 20 countries – including 37 World premieres, 18 International premieres, 37 Canadian […]

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Canada’s Queer and Racialized Funniest People Punch Up in New Documentary Series ‘Killjoy Comedy’

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Queer, Streaming Online

There’s a queerer, fatter, ‘diasporic-ier’ documentary series about the future of comedy coming our way. Killjoy Comedy will be released on OUTtvGo on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Killjoy Comedy is a six-part series featuring some of Canada’s most exciting new voices in comedy. Killjoy Comedy puts the microphone in front of our favourite Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, fat, women, and […]

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Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls – heartwarming Canadian indie flick from Toronto-based queer filmmaker, Julianna Notten

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online, Theatre

Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls tells the story of Erin, the only out person in her grade, and Liz, fellow comic nerd and track star. They find their friendship tested when Liz is accepted to private school and Erin falls hard for new girl and ex child-star, Sydni. Erin believes the only way to save […]

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Knock At The Cabin – home invasion horror flick with a queer twist

posted Monday, February 13, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

Knock At The Cabin tells the story of vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her same-sex male parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe […]

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Seriously Red – a dream to become the world’s greatest Dolly Parton impersonator

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

In Seriously Red, Real estate agent Red (Krew Boylan) loses her job then decides to pursue her dream of becoming the world’s greatest Dolly Parton impersonator. After her act attracts the attentions of an amorous Elvis impersonator (Rose Byrne) and a powerful booking agent (Bobby Cannavale), Red is catapulted into the top tier of copycat […]

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The Blue Caftan – an Arabic story of forbidden love

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

The Blue Caftan (French: Le Bleu du caftan) is a 2022 Arabic-language drama film directed by Maryam Touzani. It depicts a woman and her closeted gay husband, who run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco, and hire a young man as an apprentice. Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. […]

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The First Fallen – small town Brazilian community grapples for hope during the early years of AIDS

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

The First Fallen takes places at the turn of 1983 in a small Brazilian town, where a group of LGBTQIA+ men and women celebrate the New Year with no idea of what’s on the horizon. The biologist Suzano knows something terrible is disrupting his body. Uncertain of his future and discouraged by the lack of […]

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The Way Out – queer horror movie about recovery, and vigilantism

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In The Way Out, Alex is an aspiring singer/songwriter, a drug addict who’s been damaged from childhood abuse. After the death of his father and inheriting the family home, he takes in a roommate, a fighter, who takes Alex under his wing, teaching him how to fight back and stand up to abusers. But soon […]

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Outrave – Exploring the Queer & POC Roots of Electronic Dance Music

posted Sunday, February 5, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Queer, Streaming Online, Toronto

The pilot episode of OUTRAVE focuses on Toronto‘s queer community and their contributions to raves and electronic music in the city from the 1980s until today. It premieres on Revry February 5th, 2023. From the origins of house to today’s massive global rave culture, it’s always more than a party as Outrave explores the connections between […]

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Ocean Boy – Australian teenager navigates life after discovering a family revelation

posted Friday, February 3, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

Inspired by true events, Ocean Boy is a stirring, provocative and compelling story about capturing the light and shade of life, while reflecting strength and vulnerability. Set in the late 1980s, the story is told through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy, Rockit. As he grapples to understand why his mother isn’t coming home, Rockit […]

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