Author Stuart Richards

Held primarily at Palace Nova in the CBD’s Eastend, the Adelaide Film Festival was one of only a few festivals in Australia that were able to hold in-cinema events in 2020. The festival took extra precautions t...

And Then We Danced had its premiere in Georgia on 8th December 2019. I got to first experience this tender film at the Melbourne International Film Festival earlier in August. Due to the queer themes explored, ...

Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad taste. However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes quee...

Themes of liminality run through the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival in Prague. The event is held in November each year, as Europe slowly turns to the coldness of winter. Once, when I stated that Prague was in Ea...

John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad taste. However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes queer film akin to Waters’ work; his humour is distinctly politically di...

Audiences attending the Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival earlier this year for San Francisco Pride month were, as always, vocal in their love of queer cinema. The quality of LGBT films c...

Frameline is a film festival that is flourishing alongside the dramatic changes in queer and LGBT identity politics. The larger, more prominent screenings occur in the Castro neighbourhood, which is famed for b...