The in-person event takes place on October 7 at London’s Picturehouse Central.
Campbell X’s Low Rider and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey are among the five features taking part in the third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase.
The in-person event takes place on October 7 as part of the festival’s UK Talent Days focus, in partnership with the British Council, at London’s Picturehouse Central.
The event will screen extracts from each project, with an introduction from its filmmaker, to an invited audience of international buyers as well as UK sales agents and festival programmers,...
Campbell X’s Low Rider and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey are among the five features taking part in the third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase.
The in-person event takes place on October 7 as part of the festival’s UK Talent Days focus, in partnership with the British Council, at London’s Picturehouse Central.
The event will screen extracts from each project, with an introduction from its filmmaker, to an invited audience of international buyers as well as UK sales agents and festival programmers,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Just in time for Succession‘s end, let’s look at method acting. The Criterion Channel are highlighting the controversial practice in a 27-film series centered on Brando, Newman, Nicholson, and many other’s embodiment of “an intensely personal, internalized, and naturalistic approach to performance.” That series makes mention of Marilyn Monroe, who gets her own, 11-title highlight––the iconic commingling with deeper cuts.
Pride Month offers “Masc,” a consideration of “trans men, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming heroes” onscreen; the Michael Koresky-curated Queersighted returning with a study of the gay best friend; and the 20-film “LGBTQ+ Favorites.” Louis Garrel’s delightful The Innocent (about which I talked to him here), the director’s cut of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation, and Stanley Kwan’s hugely underseen Lan Yu make streaming premieres, while Araki’s Totally F***ed Up and Mysterious Skin also get a run. Criterion Editions include Five Easy Pieces,...
Pride Month offers “Masc,” a consideration of “trans men, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming heroes” onscreen; the Michael Koresky-curated Queersighted returning with a study of the gay best friend; and the 20-film “LGBTQ+ Favorites.” Louis Garrel’s delightful The Innocent (about which I talked to him here), the director’s cut of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation, and Stanley Kwan’s hugely underseen Lan Yu make streaming premieres, while Araki’s Totally F***ed Up and Mysterious Skin also get a run. Criterion Editions include Five Easy Pieces,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Production wraps on BFI-backed UK-South Africa feature ‘Low Rider’; first image revealed (exclusive)
Project from UK writer-director Campbell X is first feature produced by UK production outfit Boudica Entertainment.
Principal photography has wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa, on UK writer-director Campbell X’s Low Rider – a UK-South Africa co-production.
A first-look image has also been released.
Low Rider stars UK actor Emma McDonald and South African Thishiwe Ziqubu, and follows the adventures of a woman named Quinn as she flies from London to Cape Town to search for her absent father. Along the way she forms a bond with a charismatic stranger, Harley, who offers to help her on her quest to find her increasingly elusive father.
Principal photography has wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa, on UK writer-director Campbell X’s Low Rider – a UK-South Africa co-production.
A first-look image has also been released.
Low Rider stars UK actor Emma McDonald and South African Thishiwe Ziqubu, and follows the adventures of a woman named Quinn as she flies from London to Cape Town to search for her absent father. Along the way she forms a bond with a charismatic stranger, Harley, who offers to help her on her quest to find her increasingly elusive father.
- 8/17/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
While we eat “doubles” we talk one on one with selected filmmakers…
Great to be back for my fourth year at the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
Jamaicans going to watch Jamaican shorts. Photo by actor director Tony Hendricks
My first night, I went with my new favorite delegation, whom I already wrote about in my Tiff It’s a Wrap blog, the group of Jamaican filmmakers to see their five shorts showing here at ttff as part of the Jafta Propella initiative to put money into the production and distribution of shorts (rather than in yet-another film festival). The range of stories and storytelling styles was a tasting menu of hors d’oevres for the festival.
Great to be back for my fourth year at the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
Jamaicans going to watch Jamaican shorts. Photo by actor director Tony Hendricks
My first night, I went with my new favorite delegation, whom I already wrote about in my Tiff It’s a Wrap blog, the group of Jamaican filmmakers to see their five shorts showing here at ttff as part of the Jafta Propella initiative to put money into the production and distribution of shorts (rather than in yet-another film festival). The range of stories and storytelling styles was a tasting menu of hors d’oevres for the festival.
- 9/29/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A film that we've been following since its debut at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival a year ago, titled Stud Life, the debut feature film from award-winning Brit film-maker Campbell X, is now available to USA audiences courtesy of Wolfe Video/On Demand, the largest exclusive distributor of Lgbt films. Described as an "homage to Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' and Steven Soderbergh's 'Sex, Lies And Videotape," here's the film's synopsis: Jj a lesbian and Seb a gay man are best friends. They work together and play together - they are tighter than a rat's ass. Then Jj falls for Elle and has to split her attention between them both? Mates b4 muff? What would...
- 4/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Tags: RihannaKate MossTina FeyCampbell XStud LifeAnna PaquinMila KunisJennifer LawrenceIMDb
Good afternoon and happy Friday!
Happy birthday to Drew Barrymore, Julie Walters, Jeri Ryan and Rachel Dratch!
Rihanna and Kate Moss look just like two good friends hanging out on the cover of V magazine.
Mila Kunis sat down with Conan to promote her new film Oz: The Great and Powerful. Not surprisingly, Kunis was funny and charming as always.
Congratulations to new mom Amber Rose! The out model gave birth to a baby boy named Sebastian Taylor Thomaz.
The team behind The Real L Word are revving up for a Real L Word documentary. The producers are currently casting and looking for “lesbians with important and compelling stories to tell for a documentary-approach to lesbian life beyond the city lights. This project will focus on the experience of living as a lesbian in more conservative areas throughout the country where non-acceptance is still the norm.
Good afternoon and happy Friday!
Happy birthday to Drew Barrymore, Julie Walters, Jeri Ryan and Rachel Dratch!
Rihanna and Kate Moss look just like two good friends hanging out on the cover of V magazine.
Mila Kunis sat down with Conan to promote her new film Oz: The Great and Powerful. Not surprisingly, Kunis was funny and charming as always.
Congratulations to new mom Amber Rose! The out model gave birth to a baby boy named Sebastian Taylor Thomaz.
The team behind The Real L Word are revving up for a Real L Word documentary. The producers are currently casting and looking for “lesbians with important and compelling stories to tell for a documentary-approach to lesbian life beyond the city lights. This project will focus on the experience of living as a lesbian in more conservative areas throughout the country where non-acceptance is still the norm.
- 2/22/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
'Studs', as defined by popular Lgbt culture, especially Black culture, are lesbian women who possess and exude a certain masculine swagger, and are perhaps more dominant and aggressive in nature. As per the candid and enlightening conversation with British filmmaker Campbell X, who identifies as a ‘stud’ herself, in the queer community, there are many labels around desire and self-identification – studs, femmes, soft-studs, touch-me-not studs, etc. However, it’s a complex and intricate culture that many have not been exposed to, especially in cinema. For her feature film debut Stud Life, described as a "homage to Spike Lee's She's Gotta...
- 7/16/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Stud Life
Written and directed by Campbell X
UK, 2012
Written and directed by Campbell X, Stud Life tells the story of Jj (T’Nia Miller), a butch lesbian with ample swagger and confidence. Living with her flamboyant gay best friend and assistant wedding photographer, Seb (Kyle Treslove), Jj looks for the perfect woman. When she meets Elle (Robyn Kerr), Jj thinks she’s realized her dreams, but when their relationship develops, so to does the tension between the three.
Set in the seedy undergrowth of urban London, Stud Life professes to be a gritty, forthright examination of gay culture in the streets. The result is anything but. Schmaltzy, tedious, and histrionic, the film takes every possible opportunity to fulfill melodramatic tropes.
Everything about the narrative feels manufactured and calculated, centered around set pieces that are meant to manipulate emotions. With little continuity and logic, the story will go from one gay-person-as-victim banality to the next,...
Written and directed by Campbell X
UK, 2012
Written and directed by Campbell X, Stud Life tells the story of Jj (T’Nia Miller), a butch lesbian with ample swagger and confidence. Living with her flamboyant gay best friend and assistant wedding photographer, Seb (Kyle Treslove), Jj looks for the perfect woman. When she meets Elle (Robyn Kerr), Jj thinks she’s realized her dreams, but when their relationship develops, so to does the tension between the three.
Set in the seedy undergrowth of urban London, Stud Life professes to be a gritty, forthright examination of gay culture in the streets. The result is anything but. Schmaltzy, tedious, and histrionic, the film takes every possible opportunity to fulfill melodramatic tropes.
Everything about the narrative feels manufactured and calculated, centered around set pieces that are meant to manipulate emotions. With little continuity and logic, the story will go from one gay-person-as-victim banality to the next,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
BFI London's 26th Lesbian and Gay film festival opens tonight with a lineup that boasts at least a dozen feature films that could be marketed as mainstream. So why is it still a niche event?
Tonight sees the opening of the 26th Lesbian and Gay film festival at the BFI in London, making it one of the longest-running gay-focused events in the UK. I recall being there in 1988. As a young lesbian from the sticks I was bowled over by its sophistication, but could not for the life of me understand much of what appeared on the screen. All I can remember is being surprised at glimpses of sex and genitalia and confused about the artsy focus. Today it is more mainstream, and definitely more accessible with its feature-length dramas and political (rather than avant garde) documentaries about serious issues around the world, but it remains a niche interest within the film festival circuit.
Tonight sees the opening of the 26th Lesbian and Gay film festival at the BFI in London, making it one of the longest-running gay-focused events in the UK. I recall being there in 1988. As a young lesbian from the sticks I was bowled over by its sophistication, but could not for the life of me understand much of what appeared on the screen. All I can remember is being surprised at glimpses of sex and genitalia and confused about the artsy focus. Today it is more mainstream, and definitely more accessible with its feature-length dramas and political (rather than avant garde) documentaries about serious issues around the world, but it remains a niche interest within the film festival circuit.
- 3/23/2012
- by Julie Bindel
- The Guardian - Film News
Partners, the CBS pilot loosely based on the lives of writers Max Mutchnik and David Kohan, has tweaked the supporting cast and characters. We still have the gay character played by Michael Urie, his boyfriend Brandon Routh, and the straight partner played by David Krumholtz. But now they've added a female character played by Molly Shannon.
Bear Grylls isn't thrilled with the decision Discovery made to terminate all current productions. "Unfortunately, Bear and Discovery have not been able to come to mutual agreement on new programming, and he disagrees with Discovery's decision to terminate current productions."
If you haven't heard, Donald Trump's sons went big game hunting, and proudly posed with the carcasses of their kills, ranging from an elephant (tail cut off for a trophy), to a leopard, to a cape buffalo. While they hunted legally on a private preserve, it's disgusting to see them gleefully kill and pose with their trophies,...
Bear Grylls isn't thrilled with the decision Discovery made to terminate all current productions. "Unfortunately, Bear and Discovery have not been able to come to mutual agreement on new programming, and he disagrees with Discovery's decision to terminate current productions."
If you haven't heard, Donald Trump's sons went big game hunting, and proudly posed with the carcasses of their kills, ranging from an elephant (tail cut off for a trophy), to a leopard, to a cape buffalo. While they hunted legally on a private preserve, it's disgusting to see them gleefully kill and pose with their trophies,...
- 3/14/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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