By Hans Pedersen, May 2018 Issue. Nobody knows what it’s like to walk in the shoes of a person of a different cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual, gender and religious [...]
By Hans Pedersen, March 2018 Issue. Every year the Sundance Film Festival viewers get to explore films that will hit the distribution pipeline in the coming months. From [...]
By Hans Pedersen, February 2018 Issue. Saturday Church is an inventive, masterfully made film that will likely leave you in tears while feeling exhilarated. Director and [...]
By Hans Pedersen, February 2018 Issue. A boxing movie set in prison in the 1980s may not seem your typical LGBTQ fare. But diverse audiences are likely to appreciate this [...]
By Hans Pedersen, September 2017 Issue. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power In theaters | PG | 98 minutes | Documentary When it comes to LGBTQ folks finding common ground [...]
By Hans Pedersen, July 2017 Issue. The Little Hours In theaters | 90 minutes | R | Comedy, Romance Foul-mouthed, sexually repressed nuns break out of their monastic habits [...]
By Hans Pedersen, July 2017 Issue. Based on the life of producer and film consultant Robert Hawk, the new documentary Film Hawk is now available on tribecashortlist.com. Hawk [...]
By Hans Pedersen, July 2017 Issue. Laerte-se Now available on Netflix | 100 minutes | Documentary Tracing the life of Brazilian cartoonist Laerte Coutinho, who came out as a [...]
By Hans Pedersen, May 2017 Issue. Power Rangers Now playing in theaters | PG-13 | 124 minutes | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi From Beauty and the Beast to Star Trek, LGBTQ [...]
By Hans Pedersen, April 2017 Issue. Kiki is fierce, dazzling and sassy all at once. In this documentary Swedish director Sara Jordenö explores the lives queer youth of color [...]
By Hans Pedersen, April 2017 Issue. Almost Adults Now playing on iTunes | 90 minutes | Comedy, Drama Best friends – Cassie, who’s straight, and Mackenzie, who’s gay [...]
By Hans Pedersen, April 2017 Issue. From the imagination of writer and director Andrew Steggall comes the thought-provoking and cathartic feature that’s centered around the [...]
By Hans Pedersen, March 2017 Issue. The Watermelon Woman Now playing on iTunes | Unrated | 90 Minutes This 1996 indie, written and directed by Cheryl Dunye, is a rare gem [...]
By Hans Pedersen, February 2017 Issue. The eighth annual Desperado LGBT Film Festival, Arizona’s biggest showcase of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and [...]
By Hans Pedersen, February 2017 Issue. Back to Echo’s Desperado 2017 coverage. The tattoo inscription on Bennett Wallace’s arm – Real Boy – spells it all out for [...]