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<em>Kiki</em> Revisits the Power of New York’s Ball Culture

The new documentary returns to a safe haven for LGBTQ youths of color first examined in the landmark film <em>Paris Is Burning.</em>
Source: Sundance Selects

It can be easy for certain kinds of films to feel overly voyeuristic. Any work that offers a peek into a world that’s completely unfamiliar to much of its audience risks keeping viewers at arm’s length, or turning its subjects into a mere curiosity. But the new film avoids this mistake as it revisits a subject first explored in the landmark 1990 documentary : . Directed by Sara Jordenö and co-written by Twiggy Pucci Garcon, feels like it’s

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