#tiff 2023 summer qamp

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Jen Markowitz lets LGBTQ+ youth speak for themselves in Summer Qamp "I wanted it to be for them & about them"

Jen Markowitz’s uplifting debut feature documentary, Summer Qamp, sees the Toronto-based filmmaker spend a week at the LGBTQIA+ CAMP fYrefly in rural Alberta, Canada, refreshingly and powerfully allowing their queer and trans teenage subjects to speak for themselves unhurried and uninterrupted. For many of the campers it is the first time that they are surrounded by people like themsleves and one…

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TIFF 2023 Film Review: Summer Qamp ★★★1/2

With regressive politicians in the United States seeking to implement legislation targeting queer and especially trans youth, including bans on gender affirming health care, participation in sport, bathroom use, book bans, and even forbidding the mention of the words “gay or trans” in schools, the loud voices of bigoted adults often overpower the kids themselves. What makes Toronto-based…