Tag: gay film

35 films from 20 countries are in competition for the 2017 Iris Prize. The shortlist for the Iris Prize – the world’s biggest LGBT short film prize – has been announced. A total of 35 films from 20 countries are in competition for the 2017 prize, with all of the films being screened together in Cardiff later in the year. Presented annually during the October film festival of the same name in Cardiff, Wales the Iris Prize continues to be the world’s...

Is this the cutest thing you’ll see all year? Quite possibly. The latest episode of Elders React, in which old people sit down and watch various pop culture videos, sees the adorable elders watch the Pixar-like animated short In A Heartbeat. With over 21 million views on YouTube, the 4-minute clip is a certified viral hit, and its success is made all the more sweet by the fact that it tells the story of a same-sex crush between two school kids. If...

The project earned $14,000 on Kickstarter after asking for $3,000 Mondays can be hard. So here’s just the thing to cheer you up: In a Heartbeat, a new animated short film that will have your heart doing all sorts of somersaults. You can watch it below. A trailer for the film was initially released in May. Created by Beth David and Esteban Bravo, the four-minute film follows Sherwin as his heart chases his crush, Jason, around the school. By the end, I...

Gay love story God’s Own Country is being heralded as ‘better than Brokeback Mountain’. As you can see in the trailer below, the film follows Johnny, an angry, lonely young man relying on alcohol and casual sex, who lives on a farm in North England with his father and grandmother. His life changes when Gheorghe, a Romanian migrant, is hired to work on the farm for the season. As the two spend time together, an intense relationship develops on a backdrop of...

The film which explores sexuality and religion was banned because it was offensive to Hinduism A film about a gay love story that was previously censored might get the green light to screen in India. India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) banned Ka Bodyscapes earlier this year. It said the film ‘portrayed Hindu gods in an obscene light and had contents of nudity’. Hindu is the main religion in India and Ka Bodyscapes explores both homosexuality and religion. The movie tells the story...

"This is for those that feel like the others, the misfits." Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome won the award for “Best Kiss” at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday night for their romantic beachside moment in the Oscar-winning Moonlight. “This award is bigger than Jharrel and I,” Sanders said during his acceptance speech. “This represents more than a kiss. This is for those that feel like the others, the misfits. This represents us.” “I think it’s safe to say that...

Congratulations, Roland Emmerich! Star director Roland Emmerich and his long-term partner will tie the knot this summer. The star director, who is best known for his disaster films, revealed the happy news in an interview with the German Press Agency (DPA). Emmerich said it was him who popped the question. Omar de Soto, the Independence Day director’s partner of nearly nine years, obviously said yes. So far no exact date has been set, but Emmerich shared a few more details. The couple, who are 33...

A typical Oscar bait film. The gay film I Am Michael, about James Franco playing a gay activist-turned-"straight" pastor, has arrived on Video on Demand, and with it, leaked scenes of some the movie's more.. er, poignant moments. All right, let's cut to the chase: Franco, Zachary Quinto and Charlie Carver have a threesome in the movie, and it's online. While the scene is a bit darkly lit and widely shot for our tastes, it's still a real treasure of modern...

The 23-year-old is set to make an appearance in the upcoming sci-fi action adventure from Lloyd Eyre-Morgan. Former Britain’s Got Talent champion George Sampson is set to appear in upcoming gay drama film Closets. The film, which is currently being adapted from the IRIS Prize-winning short of the same name starring Cucumber’s Cel Spellman and Julie Hesmondhalgh, focuses on a 16-year-old boy struggling to come to terms with his sexuality in 1986, who finds himself mysteriously transported 30 years into the...

Sex, porn, power, fame, greed, and ambition all collide in James Franco’s gay murder movie, King Cobra, the trailer for which has just been released. As we’ve been reporting, the film follows the rise of gay adult film star Brent Corrigan (nee Sean Paul Lockhart) and his relationship with the man who discovered him, producer Bryan Kocis (Christian Slater). After rising to stardom, Corrigan has a falling out with Kocis when he realizes that he’s legally bound to work only for him–and he’s...

There's been a lot going on in the world of gay James Franco, as the actor revealed there are two versions of his. “Gay in my art and straight in my life,” James Franco added to the statement that he is a little gay. “But if your definition of gay and straight is who I sleep with, then I guess you could say I’m a gay cock tease,” he continued. However, in his ultimate gay movie that debuted last week at Tribeca...