Thursday, August 31, 2006

And Trouble for an Old Fan....

One of our fans has been Tony Comstock of Comstock Films. His gay male love story film, "Damon and Hunter," has been chosen to be screened at QueerDOC, an important Austrailian gay film festival. But the authorities have demanded cuts. In a common sense move (though I'm sure a painful capitulation), Tony had to make the cuts in the hopes of finding a larger audience for his work. Then the authorities blasted him as "defaming" them for saying in the new print that "cuts ordered by the authorities." Talk about Orwellian....

You can read all about it here.


Here's hoping all the best for this excellent director whose films show sex the way it should be depicted: honest, loving, real.