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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Gay Short Films & Web Series

First Episode Of Neil Patrick Harris’ Puppet Dreams Online

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Last week we brought you a very entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming web series, Neil’s Puppet Dreams, featuring out star Neil Patrick Harris, and a load of Jim Henson built puppet madness (along with some hunky blokes in tiny shorts).

Now the first episode, The Lullaby, is online over at the Youtube Nerdist  – and of course it’s embedded above. It sees Neil and hubby David Burtka trying to get the kids to sleep, before the How I Met Your Mother star falls asleep and enters his strange puppet world.

While many of us have experienced falling in our dreams, few of us will have been serenaded on our descent by a puppet goat, doll and squirrel-looking thing who sing to us about how we’re going to get smashed to a pulp when we reach the ground.

The series will air every Tuesday through to the end of January, with upcoming episodes featuring the likes of Nathan Fillion, Joe Manganiello and more.

It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, so make sure you check it out!

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#InvisibleParents Short Highlights Inequality For Gay Families In Europe

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Director Mike Buonaiuto scored a massive viral hit with his moving short Homecoming, which used the touching story of a soldier’s return home to push for equal marriage. Now Buonaiuto is back, teaming up with AllOut.org for a new short timed to coincide with National Adoption Week, which hopes to raise awareness of the inequalities facing gay parents throughout the EU.

As Allout put it in a petition they’re hoping we’ll all sign, ‘Same-sex families often stop being considered a family as soon as they set foot in a different country in the European Union – because the EU lacks a general legal framework to recognise these couples and their children across borders.’ The petition calls on the European Commission to address the situation.

It is surprising that while the EU assures things like free movement of people, stronger trade ties and that rules on everything from cheese to bananas are the same across the block, something as fundamental as a family can alter depending on where you are within the Union.

Andre Banks, Executive Director of AllOut.org commented, ‘EU member states pride themselves on integration, but their governments still fail to resolve the legal hurdles keeping same-sex families from full recognition across borders.’

MEP Michael Cashman has also joined the campaign, saying ‘Gay and lesbian parents can often find themselves legally invisible in a large percentage of the continent, putting their entire family in a very vulnerable situation, especially with regard to healthcare, holidays or family legal systems. The #InvisibleParents film argues that all children should be treated with legal equality, regardless of the sexual orientation of their parents. It is a brilliant way to allow people to connect with these very real issues and then do something about it.’

Organisers are encouraging people to share the film on social networking platforms and to use the Twitter hashtag #InvisibleParents

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Take A Look At John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘Superqueer’ Video For Sigur Ros

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Icelandic musicians Sigur Ros have always been at the arty end of the spectrum, but rather than just being posers, they do genuinely interesting things. The latest is the Valtari Mystery Film project, where they band gave 12 filmmakers the same budget to come up with short films using music from Sigur Ros’ latest album, Valtari.

The project has already brought us Shia LaBeouf’s penis in the third of the shorts, and now the ninth has arrived, ‘Seraph’, which was directed by Hedwig & The Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell and graphic artist Dash Shaw. There is more nudity, but it’s of the animated kind, as well as having a slightly queer bent.

Here’s what Mitchell had to say about it: “Eight years ago I met Jonsi, the queer singer of Sigur Rós, and took him to his first drag show (Suppositori Spelling in SF). Jonsi says it remains his ‘best drag show.’ This year he asked me and 12 other flmmakers to be part of their Valtari Mystery Film Project. We were allowed do whatever we wanted with the music from their new album–no parameters but the small budget. I chose to do a 6 min narrative short focussing on a character from Shell Game, an animated feature I’m producing with director Dash Shaw, an amazing graphic novelist who did comic book art for my film Rabbit Hole. Seraph is the superqueer result using two songs from the new album.”

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Second Season Of Gay Web Series Husbands Hits The Web, Including A Joss Whedon Cameo!

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The first episode of the second season of the fun web-series Husbands has hit the internet – and best of all, it features a cameo from Avengers director Joss Whedon! There are also appearances from Dollhouse’s Dichen Lachman, Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer and Buffy’s Emma Caulfield, so it’s certainly far more star-studded than most web series can muster. But then, as Husbands was co-created by former Buffy and Dollhouse producer Jane Espenson, she has a great range of actors she can call upon, with the likes of Buffy’s Amber Benson set to appear in upcoming episodes.

Husbands is set in a fictional America where gay marriage is legal everywhere, and two celebrities – one an openly gay actor and the other a newly out baseball player – drunkenly get hitched in Las Vegas. Despite the fact it’s all happened a bit quick, their worry about scandal and disgracing the hard won right of gays getting married means they decide to keep their secret and try to make the relationship work. In season 2 they’re still dealing with the difficulties of gay life and the even more unusual challenges of gay celebrities, where they have to negotiate what America expects of their homos.

The series is directed by Jeff Greenstein, who produced episodes of Friends and Will & Grace, and stars Brad Bell as Cheeks and Sean Hemeon as Brady. The next episode will be released on August 29th. The can find out more at the show’s website. [Read more…]

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Bryan Singer’s H+ The Digital Series Premieres Its First Two Episodes

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A few weeks ago we reported that Bryan Singer was due to release the first parts of the web series he’s produced, H+, on August 8th. Well now episodes 1 & 2 are here, and you can watch them above and below.

The 48-part sci-fi show takes viewers on an episodic, apocalyptic journey into the future where consumers are rapidly installing a chip called H+ into their nervous systems that allows them to access the Internet 24 hours a day – by just thinking it. One day, a virus is released – causing a third of the world’s population to die instantly. The series deals with the massive political and human changes that take place, the fight for survival and the mystery to discover who is behind this atrocity.

The series is directed by Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row), and stars an acclaimed international cast that includes Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Amir Arison (Law & Order: SVU) and David Clayton Rogers (Jane By Design). Bryan Singer comments, “Our first venture into the digital space gives us the freedom to engage fans with new content that is immersive, interactive and is tailored to be enjoyed online, H+ The Digital Series on YouTube provides us with a strong two-way dialogue with our fans, creating a deeper and ongoing connection.”

The first two parts are definitely intriguing, and suggest this is a series that might be worth sticking with. You can subscribe to H+ via its Youtube channel.

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Where The Bears Are Web Series Arrives

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Early last month we reported that the fun looking web series Where The Bears Are was due to hit the internet in August. Well now the first of the 26 episodes is here and you can watch it above.

The morning after a birthday party a hairy bear finds a hot cub in his bed, before he discovers a dead man in his bathtub. As you may have guessed from that, it’s a bit of a mystery series, although is doesn’t forget to have hot, burly and hairy guys, all having a whole lot of fun (it is intended for mature audiences, after all). The brainchild of a group of film and TV veterans, co-creator Rick Copp (The Brady Bunch Movie) has described it as, “This is basically The Golden Girls meets Murder, She Wrote about three bears living together in Silver Lake in Los Angeles, who attempt to solve the murder of a party guest that turned up dead in their bathroom.”

You can keep up with the series over at wherethebearsare.tv or follow it on Facebook and/or Twitter. [Read more…]

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Take A Look At Some Bloopers From The Steam Room Stories Gang

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A few weeks ago we posted the rather fun edition of the popular web series Steam Room Stories, in which a guy manages to get a kiss by saying he’s going to audition for a gay role in a movie. Now the guys over at SRM have provided us with an extremely fun bloopers video they’ve put together, and which we’ve embedded above.

Quite frankly, we’d be happy just to watch the parade of hot guys wearing only towels, but when they’re having fun, making mistakes and screwing around, it’s all the better! Take a look above, and if you fancy checking out more Steam Room stories, you can head over to their Youtube channel – as well as watching the latest instalment, ‘Not So Magic Mike’, below. [Read more…]

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Takes A Look At Todrick Hall’s ‘Cinderfella’ Gay Parody

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Here’s a oddly intriguing one, which is partway between a music video and short film, with US X Factor finalist Todrick Hall starring as Cinderfella, who wants to go see all the boys at the ball, but who’s wicked stepmother (Janice Dickinson) won’t let him go. Mixing Disney classic tunes with modern pop numbers, it’s a rather camp and fun concoction that sets out to say love in all its forms is a good thing. It also features the likes of Lance Bass, Shangela and Willam Belli.

Hall says, “I wanted to tell this famous fairy tale in a new and innovative way, combining familiar top 40’s songs with classic Disney melodies. This story speaks volumes and I think that love is as classic as this fairy tale. It’s time for us to legalize love in all shapes and colors.”

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Illegal To Be You Short Film/Campaign

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The Illegal To Be You video campaign, launched by the Kaleidoscope Trust, has already gained plenty of traction since being launched earlier this week. It imagines a world where by blond, blue-eyed or under 5ft 10in were illegal, and then compares that with the fact that in the world today 78 countries persecute people for being gay and five still retain the death penalty for it.

It’s a neat idea that might make people think, especially those on the fence who aren’t bothered one way or the other about gay rights.

Jeremy Browne, the Foreign Office minister for human right, has praised the video, saying “This video brings home very vividly how it must feel to be singled out and abused just for being who you are. And the statistics are chilling. Many people will be shocked to hear that 78 countries around the world still criminalise homosexuality and that in five cases the maximum penalty is death.

“Over a million LGBT people will be in London this weekend to celebrate ‘World Pride’. But it is especially gratifying that, thanks to campaigns like this, the many millions more around the world who do not have the freedom to express their sexuality are not being forgotten.”

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