PRESS

The New Yorker by Masha Gessen

ARTICLE

"Vaid, a legendary organizer in the L.G.B.T.Q. movement, had an unerring sense of injustice and the overwhelming need to redress it." [profile feature; background on film subject) Read >

FILM MADE FOR THE PROVINCETOWN COMMUNITY BY A COMMUNITY OF FILMMAKERS

ARTICLE

Provincetown Arts Magazine: “WHEN HE BEGAN THE JOURNEY of creating a second short film, filmmaker Mike Syers jumped at the chance to focus on LGBTQ+ activist, advocate, and author Urvashi Vaid.” Read >

A Message From the Life of Urvashi Vaid: Do Not Remain Silent

ARTICLE

Ms. Magazine: “Amid present-day attacks on immigrants, a film on the late Urvashi Vaid shows what people power really looks like…..” Read >

GBH’s Local Lens Documentary Series Reveals …..

ARTICLE

GBH is redoubling its efforts to present and promote with the second year of Local Lens — a curated series of local, independent documentaries, supplemented with programs from the PBS library, that capture our beautiful, strange, historic corner of the country, while amplifying the work of local filmmakers. Read >

what would urvashi do?

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CURVE Magazine: “As we enter 2025, we find that many steps remain to secure LGBTQ+ rights. Curve’s archivist Julia Rosenzweig examines the inspiring legacy of lesbian activist Urvashi Vaid.” Read >

How Documentary Film Making Inspires Social Consciousness

VIDEO INTERVIEW

Triversity Talk broadcast: Fermin Rojas is a playwright, producer, film maker, actor, and co founder of DKR Films, which presents award winning documentaries and is currently screening “There Are Things To Do” about LGBTQ Activist Urvashi Vaid ….. Watch >

FRAMELINE SPECIAL SCREENING & CONVERSATION

ARTICLE

ALOK & There Are Things To Do screen on June 28. Directors Hedison and Mike Syers, along with Alok Vaid-Menon, will hold an onstage conversation after the films. Read >

WOW, JUST WOW - HIGHEST RATING

EDUCATIONAL MEDIA REVIEWS

A beautiful and heart-wrenching documentary … This reviewer must be getting too old to review films of this significance. I was in tears at film’s end. Read >

WIND RIVER PRIDE IN WYOMING

WYOMING PUBLIC MEDIA

Wind River Pride is hosting a series of events in Lander and Riverton this month to celebrate Pride. Read >

Stonewall Museum exhibit "Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes" HONORING URVASHI VAID WITH SPECIAL GUEST LAVERNE COX

PRESS RELEASE

"Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes," an exhibition of LGBTQ+ stories from the Stonewall National Museum & Archives Photography Exhibit, comes to Read >

Provincetown Independent

ARTICLE

“One Year In, Solo Artists Find Strength in the Ensemble” about the making of the film in collaboration of filmmakers with Urvashi Vaid’s vision of community. Read >

queer guru

REVIEW

There Are Things To Do : a Celebration of the life of URVASHI VAID Read >

INTERVIEW

Fermin Rojas & Mike Syers talk about THERE ARE THINGS TO DO Watch >

National G&L Review by Richard Burns

ARTICLE

Urvashi Vaid, creator of change Read >

OutTake by Charlotte Robinson

INTERVIEW

LGBTQ Filmmakers at Ptown Film Festival Speak OUT (8 minutes; 08;15 to 15;20) Listen >