Queers On Screen

With your help, we want to highlight and congratulate the out and proud queer actors & filmmakers who are not afraid to make queer stories!
If you know of Queer Filmmakers making Queer Films, we would love to know the details so we can promote them here!!!
email queersonscreen@googlemail.com
thank you thank you thank you

QUEER FESTIVAL OF THE MONTH

The XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in Berlin is always one worth waiting for - amazing program, retrospectives that you never see at other festivals and a rocking trailer!!!! Check it out and if your in Berlin - head down to the Moviemento Cinema from the 29th of May until the 1st of June! Can't Wait!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

scared of playing gay?

I was involved in a casting last year for a short film called 'Torten im Sand/ Cakes and Sand' and we had to cast my lover, and there were a number of great gay actors available, yet, the majority were scared. SCARED.? They didn't want to be typcast as a 'gay actor'. This I find a really strange concern.
Some could not do it as their agents didn't want them staring in a Queer Short Film, nothing against the queers of course, it just wasn't the right role for their talent and this road was not one they wanted their people to go down.
Strange right? I here this happens alot. I feel this stinks. I would like to change it.
First I would like to introduce the lovely Gay man who did take the part, who was not afraid to play a gay character in a short film. Jan Andreeson, an up coming German Actor who was really, simply inspiring to work with!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)