John Cooper, a gay dad who used to be programming director of LA's OutFest is Sundance's festival director. Over at the Huffington Post, Phillip Crook interviews Cooper and offers a woefully incomplete roundup of the queer offerings in Park City. The story misses virtually all of the lesbianish movies Trish Bendix compiled at After Ellen, including the married dyke drama Concussion (above) from out director Stacie Passon and producer Rose Troche; two Jane Lynch movies; and the girl buddy comedy Ass Backwards.
In anticipation of the new S&M flick Interior. Leather Bar. (above), exploring those lost 40 minutes from Cruising, Crook recaps James Franco's gay C.V. and fails to name even half of his queer work.
While Crook dutifully discusses Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, he ignores the terrific gay Chilean-New Yorker writer/director Sebastián Silva, who won the World Jury Prize at Sundance for his brilliant The Maid in 2009, returned in 2011 with Old Cats, and is back in 2013 with two movies at the festival: the thriller Magic Magic and an improvised romp called Crystal Fairy. Both movies star Michael Cera and, more importantly, Silva's brother Agustín, all grown up from his role in The Maid and ready to be the next Gael Garcia Bernal (below, left). Crystal Fairy also stars Silva's other brothers Juan and Jose.
This year's queer documentaries explore the classroom murder of Lawrence King; aids activists in Africa; the new pornographers of kink.com; US churches' antigay crusades in Uganda from Oscar winner Roger Ross Wilson; and a look at Jim McGreevey directed by Nancy Pelosi's daughter Alexandra.
IndieWire's Peter Knegt lists 18 films of lgbt interest though, as so often, they're lacking the trans.
Among five queer films at the alternative Slamdance is the doc Where I Am about gay writer Robert Drake and his 10-year recovery after a gaybashing in Sligo, Ireland left him paralyzed. The film records his recent return to Sligo and (I'm almost certain) a chat with Colm Toibin.
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