DIVA is delighted to sponsor Best Performance in a Female Role BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGES VIA IRIS PRIZE Calling all LGBTQIA film fans! Cardiff-based LGBTQ+ Film Festival Iris Prize has [….]
Raindance Film Festival unveils 2022 programme, featuring Heartstopper-style queer feature ERIN’S GUIDE TO KISSING GIRLS
Published on :Klaxon! Are you ready, LGBTQIA film fanatics? BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE BY RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Calling all LGBTQIA film fans! Raindance Film Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a [….]
Shortlist and jury for LGBTQ+ Iris Prize Best British Award revealed
Published on :The international jury has also been revealed, featuring DIVA’s editor-in-chief Roxy Bourdillon BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE VIA IRIS PRIZE Get excited! The organisers of the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival [….]
BFI Flare: Maja Borg on Passion
Published on :“I hope that the film can inspire more dialogue about consent and power” BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE BY BFI FLARE Describe your film in three words! Longing. Power. Belonging. Could [….]
BFI Flare: Director Fawzia Mirza and writer Kausar Mohammed on The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night
Published on :“We wanted to see characters like ourselves, normalised on screen, who happen to be queer” BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE BY ZAHRA SIDDIQUI Describe your film in three words! KAUSAR: Family [….]
BFI Flare: Shelley Thompson on Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor
Published on :“Trans individuals deserve what all our children do: a chance to be their most realised and comfortable selves” BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE BY BFI FLARE Describe your film in three [….]
“Girl Picture is a fragment of life”: Director Alli Haapasalo on the anti-coming-of-age film showing at BFI Flare 2022
Published on :“I call it a fragment of life, because to me, it encapsulates a moment in the life of these three girls” BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGES BY BFI FLARE Appearing at [….]