Sci-Fi & Squeam

16 Feb 2014

Queer The Movie Screen # 1 with Tara Judah

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In the studio The Squeamer and special guest contributor Tara Judah film reviewer and movie expert talk about Queer Cinema and what makes it ‘queer’ why it is essential to understand this and how it influenced the independent and Arthouse cinema history of the last century, and to know where we are today, and what has happened to Queer Cinema…and does it still exist? does it need to? and why should it?

All these questions, plus how they discover and bond over their passion for Derek Jarman and British Queerness in cinema!

From Hollywood Babylon to Hitchcock to Jubilee and MORE it’s all on ONE podcast…but wait there WILL BE MORE as this is only # 1 in our look at Queer Cinema….# 2 will be podcasted soon….we promise!

ABOVE Tara Judah

Tara Judah does these things:

‘I’m freelance film writer and radio critic. My outlets include 3RRRFM (Plato’s Cave), JOYFM (Saturday Magazine), Metro Magazine, Screen Education, Senses of Cinema and The Big issue. I’ve served on selection panels for the Encounters Short Film Festival (2009), MIFF Short Fiction (2013, 2014), Revelations Film Festival (2014) and the FIPRESCI Jury at International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (2013). I am also the Programming and Content Assistant for Melbourne’s Astor Theatre, I am a committee member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque, an English-language editor of FIPRESCI festival reports and a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.’