Delighted to announce that I Can Only Be Mary Lane has officially a trailer! What a pleasure is has been to Produce this film and edit this trailer about such a courageous woman. Hope you enjoy it!
Woow! According to Time Out Lisbon, Our Skin is 1 of the 5 films to not miss at DocLisboa: International Film Festival. I am extremely honored for this mentioning. If you are in Lisbon, check it out on page 67 of the weekly magazine!
Dezanove, a Portuguese Online Newspaper, also highlighted Our Skin as one of the films to look forward at DocLisboa! Here is it: http://dezanove.pt/os-filmes-lgbti-a-nao-perder-do-1005026
What an honor! Extremely happy to have premiere my lastest hybrid documentary Our Skin at NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival and at DocLisboa: International Film Festival! What a dream it is to screen your work internationally and create meaningful discussions about gender, sexuality and PTSD. Thank you NewFest and DocLisboa for being now a part of the film's history.
Here is a trailer of DocLisboa in which Our Skin was included and a few photos of both festivals:
Another exciting collaboration is in the works, Booth. Written and co-produced by Roger Q. Mason, the short-film brings together the unique vision of Jesseca Simmons and Shuhan Fan as cinematographers, Gabrielle Chabot as the head of costumes, hair & make-up, and Vincent L. Povázsay as the composer. Booth stars Fergus Inder and chronicles the assassination of the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln through the point-of-view of his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. I'm sharing the roles of co-producer, editor/director...
After 2-years attending the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern University, I graduated today along with 12 of my favorite people in the world! Special shout out to Shuhan Fan and Jesseca Simmons whom I fell in love with. So much talent! And, of course, a special thanks to my spouse Kevin without whom I wouldn't have been able to graduate from Northwestern. Kevin graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.
Congratulations to all, and I couldn't be more excited for the future!
Age, Sex, Location is a one man show that takes a piercing look at societal taboos, internalized homophobia and the limits of gender norms. The play stars the writer Roger Q. Mason and premiered at Center on Halsted in 2015. The play has also been staged in Chicago's Stage 773 and Alvina Krause Studio in Evanston. I'm currently directing an off-broadway production in New York City that will debut in January 2017.
Roger and I in a Q&A session following the debut of A/S/L at Alvina Krause Studio, Evanston.
Red Carpet at Reeling Film Festival at the Music Box in Chicago during the premiere of Skye co-directed with Shuhan Fan:
Left to right: Sarah M. Rubin (Shorts Co-Programmer at Reeling), Kevin Gorey (Skye's Producer), Roger Q. Mason (Northwestern Student), João Queiroga (Co-Director of Skye), Raul Esparza III (Assistant Deputy Director Illinois Film Office)
Partnering with Center on Halsted, I have the fun opportunity to curate the performance art event, Queergasm 2015! The sixth annual interdisciplinary program featured Chicago-based artists who questioned the relationship between intimacy, art, and queerness. While exploring the theme of Intimacies & Outimacies this is an evening of debauchery, satirical and poetic performances that made everyone Queergasm!
An incredible honor to partner with rede ex aequo to co-host Prémios Média with Alexandra Santos and celebrate the best of Portuguese media that celebrates LGBTQ narratives and challenge homofobia and heteronormativity.
João Queiroga in Teatro São Luiz
Working at Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago Film Festival was one of the most challenging and fun experiences that I ever have. A dream team to work with and the once-in-a-life-chance to meet directors, producers and actors from all over the world! From the different Festivals, TV Awards and Summer Screenings I loved ever moment of it!
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