BFI Flare 2024 preview for Sight & Sound

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BFI Flare 2024 includes two powerful features about trans experiences of family life, Close To You and Crossing.

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BFI Flare 2023 preview for Sight & Sound

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London’s celebration of queer cinema includes a tribute to the pioneering British director of 1978’s Nighthawks.

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BFI Flare 2022 preview for Sight & Sound

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London’s celebration of queer cinema returns to in-person screenings while keeping some of its online offering.

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April 2020 update

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Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.

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BFI Flare Five Films for Freedom 2020 round-up for Sight & Sound

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A review of this year’s shorts selection – co-produced by BFI Flare and the British Council to be viewed online around the world – in the context of the festival’s cancellation because of coronavirus.

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BFI Flare 2019 round-up (and 2018 podcast)

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Thinking about challenges and opportunities to do with personal identity, collective action and uses of the past at this year’s London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (plus a link to podcast about the 2018 fest).

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BFI Flare podcast for Sight & Sound

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An overview of the 2017 London LGBT Film Festival with Sophie Mayer, Alex Davidson and myself.

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10 to watch at BFI Flare 2016

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10 titles of interest at this year’s London LGBT Film Festival, from sauna zombies to queer burlesquers

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Image from 1968 documentary about the Royal Vauxhall Tavern

As the George & Dragon closes, the BFI revives the queer past

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Do you care about queer culture and identity? Thoughts on the closure of yet another venue and a night of incredible archive footage

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Dressed as a Girl

Five highlights from BFI Flare 2015

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Festival report on BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2015 including Dressed as a Girl, The New Girlfriend, Tab Hunter Confidential, 54: The Director’s Cut, Save the Tavern and Something Must Break

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