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Austin 360 As long as straight is the default, queer representation will be important, said Zelda Barnz, the wunderkind writer and producer behind HBO Max show Genera+ion, which follows a group of modern teens exploring sexuality. Barnz appeared on a South by Southwest panel Tuesday with dad Daniel Barnz, also on the show s creative team, and TV veteran Russel T Davies, whose AIDS dramedy It s a Sin also airs on HBO Max. About 40 years separate the time periods of the two shows, which show the LGBTQ community in far different states. “Period drama, really? Davies said of his 1980s-set TV show. “My life is a period drama? ....
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Finding humor in bleak times is a very Russian thing to do, filmmaker Wes Hurley says. It s such a somber culture, but there s also a lot of dark humor in Russian culture, he says. Being able to laugh at the hard stuff helps you to survive, a skill he learned from his mother, a doctor turned mail-order bride. The two immigrated from Russia to the U.S. in the 90s. Now, Hurley s autobiographical film, Potato Dreams of America, makes its world premiere at SXSW Online on March 16. It s competing in the film festival s narrative feature competition. Hurley says humor also disarms an audience, and Potato Dreams of America certainly does that. The heartfelt comedy has two distinct acts: the first in the collapsing Soviet Union, where the cinematic representation of Hurley s childhood self called Potato lives in a fantastical (but homophobic and anti-Semitic) version of his homeland, and the second in Seattle, a more straightforward dramatization of his years as a gay ....