For up-and-coming young people like myself and my friends, it’s really challenging. That logline wasn’t an easy sell to executives, as Frieder explained to IndieWire, but Sivan’s feverish international following helped secure the movie a wider release on an accessible streaming platform.įrieder, who previously served as a staff writer on MTV’s “Sweet/Vicious” said it’s near impossible” to “gat gay shit made.” He said, “And that’s the truth of my experience. Writer/director Jared Frieder scored a sweet deal with the Paramount+ premiere of his pandemic-made feature “Three Months,” starring LGBTQ icon Troye Sivan as a young small-townster facing possible HIV exposure and navigating the sticky entanglements of young love. He’s already putting the finishing touches on “Treatment,” a queer-themed psychological horror film for Shudder and starring “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party” breakout Cole Doman. Brown a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. The film earned him and co-star/writer Sheldon D. The movie puts the messy particulars of gay sex and the contagious struggle for intimacy front and center, making Fifer a uniquely provocative voice. New York-based filmmaker Matthew Fifer deftly multi-tasked as the co-director (along with Kieran Mulcare), co-writer, and star of 2020’s festival hit “Cicada.” The erotic and darkly funny drama follows a Brooklyn gig-economy worker (Fifer) whose days are shaped by empty sexual encounters and hangovers - until love shows up, and he’s forced to confront a past trauma. Now that he’s proven his mettle as a deft filmmaker and queer icon thanks to “On the Count of Three” and “Rothaniel,” we’ll no doubt be hearing and seeing much more from him soon. Next up, he stars in Yorgos Lanthimos’ first feature since “The Favourite,” “Poor Things,” opposite a stacked cast including Abbott, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley. Oh, and he also hosted “Saturday Night Live” earlier this year. Also this year, his directorial debut “On the Count of Three” finally hit theaters more than a year after the acclaimed death-wish comedy, co-starring Christopher Abbott, riled up Sundance. Jerrod Carmichael is on a hot streak following his introspective HBO stand-up special “Rothaniel,” in which the comic not only came out as gay but also revealed his unusual birthname to audiences. She also directed the 2021 HBO Max original documentary “Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground,” a video-essay portrait of Black liberation honoring Henry Hampton’s 14-hour, Peabody-winning chronicle from the late 1980s. In 2021, she participated in the Sundance New Frontiers piece “Traveling the Interstitium with Octavia Butler,” using web-based extended reality to craft an Afrofuturist narrative inspired by the visionary sci-fi writer. She earned an Oscar nomination for the Netflix-backed 2019 short documentary “A Love Song for Latasha,” which celebrates the life of Latasha Harlins, a Black girl shot by a convenience store owner in Los Angeles in 1991, through joyously edited archival footage. Sophia Nahli Allison describes herself as a “Black queer radical dreamer,” and the wide range of her work thus far shows an intrepid filmmaker who’s just getting started. In the spirit of Pride Month, the spirit of great stories, and the spirit of generally just feeling prideful, expect big things from this group. While no list of this kind can promise to be exhaustive, we’ve handpicked 10 LGBTQ creators who are making impressive leaps on screens of all sizes right now. Instead, they’re inviting audiences of all stripes to participate in the joyousness of being queer, and the power of first existing on the margins, only to break out of them. The point is, LGBTQ stories no longer have to be ancillary to well, straighter narratives, and they don’t need to revolve around trauma or pain anymore either. Billy Eichner is heading up the first gay rom-com from a major studio with “Bros,” “Heartstopper” is a tween smash on Netflix, and Jerrod Carmichael, one of the folks on our list of the 10 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise in 2022, came out on an HBO special. Legacy gay favorite “Queer as Folk,” already remade once before in the U.S., is coming back to Peacock in new shape and form. This past year has seen the stars rise for many of our favorite queer filmmakers, from Andrew Ahn with the Hulu release of “Fire Island” to Emma Seligman’s sleeper sensation “Shiva Baby.” This particular Pride Month of June 2022 is a supernova moment for LGBTQ storytelling. Editor’s note: This story was originally published in June 2019 and has been updated accordingly for June 2022.
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