The Ad Council announced today that it is collaborating with leading gaming companies and top gaming influencers to launch Game for Good. The effort aims to harness the power of games and the gaming community to drive awareness, engagement and impact on the critical social issues addressed by Ad Council campaigns.
Award-winning filmmaker Clyde Peterson’s latest work, Torrey Pines, has been announced as the opening night film for this year’s TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival. Peterson, a Seattle-based filmmaker, musician, visual artist, and activist, has been a frequent contributor to the festival.
The latest RuPaul's Drag Race cast was announced last night during Logo TV's NewNowNext Awards. To almost no one's surprise, the cast for Season 8 included a familiar face from the Seattle Drag Scene: Miss Robbie Turner. Turner, who's cover story during the filming of...
It's telling that the Oscars, the system Hollywood has devised to honor their own has, for the second year in a row, thrown diversity completely out the window. What does it say about your system, Hollywood, when the only person of color on your award stage is the...
Seattle’s Gender Justice League will be taking over Melrose Market Studios next Thursday, August 6 starting at 6pm for the debut of the Gender Justice Awards. The dinner will highlight and showcase the continuing activism of trans and allied activists who have made...
The marquee outside the Egyptian calls Tangerine a comedic romp, which is somewhat misleading. It’s true that the movie is outrageous, daring, and funny. But calling it a romp is akin to calling a trans sex worker a young, urban, professional. It’s a description that barely scratches the surface.
The 2015 Seattle International Film Festival starts today, much to the joy of cinephiles around the Pacific Northwest. With nearly 300 films in the lineup, including almost 2 dozen LGBT-themed films, there's more than possibly the most devoted (or obsessed) film fan...
Tangerine, the Sundance hit from “Starlet” writer-director Sean Baker, was recently acquired for distribution by Magnolia Pictures. Shot entirely by cinematographer Radium Cheung with an iPhone 5s, the film stars Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as transgender sex workers in Hollywood.
Murray Bartlett, star of HBO’s Looking, will be invading Seattle’s Capitol Hill on Friday, Jan 9 as he live tweets from local businesses to promote the premiere of his hit show. Fans of Bartlett can catch him at such locations as Gay City, Babeland, Cupcake Royale, Barrio, Atomic Cosmetics, and Tru Love Art Gallery, where he’ll be tweeting as @3DollarBillCine.