Community spotlight: getting to know community volunteer Phlan-Michelle Purss
“Within the LGBTIQ community I’ve been volunteering for 30 years – ten years with Queer Screen and and 31 years with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.”
“Within the LGBTIQ community I’ve been volunteering for 30 years – ten years with Queer Screen and and 31 years with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.”
“Realities are made harsher by being poor, non-white, and gay… and having few opportunities. Finding a love relationship amongst all that, can be an impossible dream.”
Enter to win a double pass to this year’s massive festival, featuring 120 films screening from February 13 to 28 in Sydney and select regional areas.
Including a Robert Mapplethorpe biopic, one of the “sexiest lesbian films” ever, and a lost gay classic that everyone should see.
The documentary, which screens at Mardi Gras Film Festival next month, has won numerous awards for exploring the lives of four trans troops across several years.
This year’s festival features over 120 films, including stars like Molly Shannon, Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Matt Smith, as well as local documentaries focused on The Coming Back Out Ball and trans elder Colleen Young.
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“Our ten teaser films are just the tip of the iceberg for what will be a bumper festival for Sydney audiences come February.”
To celebrate the Mardi Gras Film Festival’s 25th year, Star Observer has 10 double passes to the festival to give away. Featuring an exciting array …
55 features and 69 short films form an incredibly queer film festival line-up for 2018.