The Long Take is a space for deep, layered film conversations about film with the same small group, over 4 months.
🎟️ Space is capped at 20 — save your seat before we start Nov 2.

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💡 Expect rich, interactive conversations about how we remember queer and trans lives — and the role film, theatre, TV, and archives play in telling these stories. And yes, you’ll get to join in, too with your own questions and ideas.

🔗 Free registration: seventh-row.com/livingoutloud

✨ Dr. Anamarija Horvat — Author of Screening Queer Memory, which examines how film/TV shape our collective memory of queer + trans histories.
✨ Angelo Madsen — filmmaker (North by Current, A Body to Live In) whose work explores personal archives

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I’ll be joined by:
✨ Dr. Emily Garside (@emilygarside.bsky.social) — whose PhD explored how theatre became both activism and record during the AIDS crisis
✨ Dr. Elspeth Brown — Historian who leads projects preserving queer + trans oral histories

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❓ Which queer + trans histories get remembered — and which are erased?
❓ How do film, theatre, and archives help us reclaim them?
❓ How do filmmakers work with (or create) archives for their films?

On Friday, our panel will dig into these questions and more!
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💬 Why show up live?
✨ Ask questions in real time + meet the panellists
✨ Share ideas that shape where the conversation goes
✨ Be part of a discussion that only happens once, with this group

💻 Free + online ft. @cjprince.bsky.social @tylekurner.bskysocial
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On Saturday, Oct 4 (2–4pm ET), join us for Day 2 of Living Out Loud: Queer + Trans Stories Today.

We’ll dig into:
✨ Why so many queer films fly under the radar
✨ Which stories get told — and which don’t
✨ How context + history shift the way we watch
✨ How queer + trans stories can connect deeply

If you like thinking out loud, testing ideas, and discovering connections together — this is your chance.

💻 Free + online — register via link in bio

🔗 Register: seventh-row.com/livingoutloud

Why show up live?
✨ Experience the film and discussion in real time — not just hear about it afterwards.
✨ Shape the insights that emerge
✨ And yes: it’s the kind of facilitated film discussion I usually host inside paid programs, but this one’s free and open to all.

And if you'd like to continue the conversation about...
✨ How we define queer + trans stories
✨ How films document the systemic barriers that shape and constrain queer + trans lives
✨ The breadth of queer + trans stories on screen today...

Join me at Living Out Loud: seventh-row.com/livingoutloud

Ep. 183, I dig into Nicholas Hytner's THE CHORAL, which is about a queer character and made by queer creatives...but is it a queer film? Is it even trying to be one?

I dig into this + a little fangirling over Hytner (he directed my fave Hamlet) and Fiennes. #TIFF50

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In Ep 181, I talked about BETWEEN DREAMS AND HOPE, about a trans man seeking gender-affirming care in Iran.

I also compare it to two other queer films from Canada & France that are also about how patriarchy, class, and legal + medical systems shape survival.

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Oh, and yes — I do fangirl a bit over Nicholas Hytner and Ralph Fiennes.

But even with all my admiration, I left THE CHORAL a bit disappointed.

(It's not that it was trying to be a queer film and failed. It wasn't. It's that it flattens the stories of all of the characters, queer or otherwise.)

This ties into Living Out Loud, a free 3-day online summit I’m hosting (Oct 3–5) on queer + trans storytelling.

We’ll be exploring what makes a story queer or trans — and how context shapes our understanding of it. (Among many other things!)

🎟️ Register for FREE: seventh-row.com/livingoutloud

It’s beautifully made. It hits emotional notes.

But it's not very interested in queer perspectives or what it would have been like to be queer during WWI.

What does it mean when queerness is there, but feels sanitized?

🎧 Listen: seventh-row.com/2025/09/18/e...