Playfully blending personal memoir, criticism and candid new interviews with filmmakers from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, 
Ryan Gilbey
's engaging and dynamic 
It Used to be Witches 
is a non-chronological treasure-hunt through queer cinema past and present.
Andrew Haigh 
(All of Us Strangers
), Cheryl Dunye (
The Watermelon Woman
), Isabel Sandoval (
Lingua Franca
) and Bruce LaBruce (
No Skin Off My Ass
) are among the directors who reveal how queer artists use film to express their most personal truths-and to challenge, defy and outrage a world that would rather they didn't exist.
That world might look rainbow-coloured from some angles, with the likes of 
Brokeback Mountain
, 
Call Me By Your Name
, 
Moonlight 
and 
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
 winning awards and acclaim. But as queer and trans people find themselves increasingly under attack, 
It Used to Be Witches
 asks whether cinema can be an effective weapon of resistance and change, and celebrates an outlaw spirit which refuses to die.
We're looking forward to a conversation with 
Ryan Gilbey
, who has been writing on film for more than 30 years. He was named the 
Independent
/
Sight and Sound
 Young Film Journalist of the Year in 1993, won a 
Press Gazette
 award for his reviews at the 
New Statesman
 where he was film critic (2006-2023) and has written for the 
Guardian
 since 2002.
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