That Gay Movie blog is to develop an original film project using a collaborative, open source approach to filmmaking.

Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have revolutionised the way many gay movies are now funded and have helped to more closely connect audiences and filmmakers. That Gay Movie aims to harness some of that crowd muscle, not to raise coin, but to raise awareness. Simply put: the more people who follow, repost or ‘like’ this blog, the more likely we are to get our movie made.

The film will be developed as an ‘open content’ project, using a Creative Commons license, which means any company or moviemaker will be able to use, distribute or rehash the idea and even keep any profit they make from it.

‘Untitled Gay Movie 2012′ will take shape on this site and we hope to bring you news of collaborations and remixes as they happen.

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(Dir. William Clift. US, 2011. 118 mins).

The title to this recommended new gay movie release might suggest a fluffy rom-com, but what you get is a smart, stylish and highly original ‘Proposition 8′ dramedy with another stand-out performance from Matthew Montgomery.

He stars as lonely, awkward, obsessive advertising exec Paul Roll. It’s at his friends’ gay wedding that he meets handsome, charming activist Jim and starts to hear wedding bells, but first he must clear the hurdle of his shy, self-doubting nature. Not helping the situation are Paul’s rich, bickering parents and a new advertising contract with an ultra right wing, pro-Prop 8 organisation – something he’s keen to hide from Jim and his circle of friends.

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(Dir. Dan Lantz. US, 2011. 82 mins).

This above average gay movie thriller maintains the creeping tension until the end and creates a satisfyingly original menace for these three city gays who go into the woods…

Dan Lantz’s taught, bloody retribution story has an energy, touch of style and central idea which elevates it above its low-budget video status. It has elements of the classic Western as a trio of travelling friends, each battling his own demons, wander off track and into a small, dusty town where it’s best to keep your head down and your business to yourself. Of course that’s never going to happen, especially with loud, sexed up, trouble making Johnny (Jesse Archer) on hand to grab the local’s attention.

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(Dir. Wade McDonald. US, 2011. 97 mins).

A gay wedding is the backdrop to this lighthearted, love-tangle drama. When lonely lawyer Aiden receives an invite to his ex’s wedding and can’t scare up a date to take along to the big event, things seem bad enough, especially as he still has feelings for his former lover, but then Max asks him to be Best Man too, which means staying at Max and his fiancee’s lakehouse for the weekend. In a desperate attempt to save face, Aiden takes along his roommate’s annoying twink colleague as his pretend boyfriend, with sharp-tongued roommate in tow, and everybody gets more than they bargained for by the end of the weekend.

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(Dirs. Darren Flaxstone & Christian Martin. UK, 2011. 80 mins).

A young, gay couple turn to the bedroom to beat the recession and the makers of hit, Brit, grit movie Shank find their funny bone in this breezy sex comedy.

Aaron has been hiding from his boyfriend, Seb, the fact he’s lost his job and when the bank threatens to repossess their home, he turns to desperate measures – in short, secretly filming him and Seb in the sack and uploading the movie to an amateur, pay-to-view website. Seb – no stranger to unwanted media attention – finds out and is shocked at Aaron’s betrayal, but when the view count skyrockets and the cash starts rolling in, he soon comes round to the idea and agrees to more x-rated instalments.

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