{"id":24163,"date":"2024-06-07T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2024-06-09T00:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T04:52:34","slug":"laugh-proud-exclusive-interview-with-director-quentin-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24163","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Proud : Exclusive Interview with Director Quentin Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Ines Laimoins &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02020 Margin Films<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHJXaNHan3UWwwUKozSB2BQ\"><b>Check out more of CinemaDaily US\u2019 video interviews on our YouTube channel<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Moran<\/strong> began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0159563\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Christine Choy<\/a>. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24164 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Laugh-Proud.png\" alt=\"Laugh Proud \" width=\"640\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Laugh-Proud.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Laugh-Proud-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laugh Proud<\/strong> : Nine diverse LGBTQ+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world&#8217;s first intersex comic 7G.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004250\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\"> Quentin Lee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Quentin Lee, Kevin Huie, Melissa Nogales-Chapman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : Wonderphil Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : <a href=\"http:\/\/marginfilms.dreamhosters.com\/\">Margin Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Documentary, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Stand-Up<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : May 17, 2024, Limited<\/p>\n<p><strong> Runtime<\/strong> : 1h 28m<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><strong>If you like the article, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5vO3_TCiWAA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laugh Proud (2024) Official Trailer #laughproud\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vO3_TCiWAA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Ines Laimoins &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02020 Margin Films Check out more of CinemaDaily US\u2019 video interviews on our YouTube channel Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. 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