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Presenting Filmmaker: Beth Mairs

Beth Mairs,film director,awaiting atwood,out lesbian canadian filmmaker

Beth Mairs is an Out lesbian Canadian filmmaker. Beth Mairs is Founder of Wild Women Expeditions and was Director from 1990-2010. Beth moved on to became a filmmaker of Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat? An adventure film based on women going on an outdoor trip in Northern Ontario. Read more about Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat?

Beth Mairs is currently working on her new film "Awaiting Atwood" with her wife Betty Ann McPherson. Read an article that talks about how Beth got Margaret Atwood to cameo in her new film Awaiting Atwood. A lesbian film of a couple that travels across Ontario on a quest to meet Magetret Atwood and their misadventures along the way. Watch a preview of the film "Awaiting Atwood" which can be seen below

QueerChatter with Beth Mairs
I caught up with Beth on facebook to ask her what's her fav LGTB movie and more.

film director Beth Mairs Notstraight: What was the first LGTB movie you watched?
Beth Mairs: Two years before I came out, I desperately wanted to see Personal Best but imagined that expressing an interest in the film would 'out' me so I avoided it. The closest I ever got to seeing Personal Best was a hilarious skit by SCTV called "Chariot of Eggs"- a mash up between PB and Chariots of Fire with Catherine O-Hara and Andrea Martin. On the other side of coming out, I saw Desert Hearts when it came to theatres- AMAZING- and a lot of heavy breathing and around me as I recall!

Notstraight: What is your favorite genre for movies?
Beth Mairs: Hard to answer: I guess I vacillate between comedy and what I call 'American Angst' films.


Notstraight: What is your favorite LGTB movie?
Beth Mairs: My all time favourite is Kissing Jessica Stein: such clever writing and a fantastic cast! My favourite in 2011 is Canadian-made Cloudburst.

Notstraight: What is your favorite Hetrosexual movie?
Beth Mairs: Oh 'heterosexual movie'- what does that mean? If you mean an essentially hetero love story.? Four Weddings and a Funeral gets to me- each of the 100 times I've watched it.

Notstraight: Which is your favorite time of the day? Are you a morning person or a night person?
Beth Mairs: I am an afternoon person. That's the truth!

Notstraight: What's your favorite thing to do on a Sunday afternoon?
Beth Mairs: Slouch on the coach with my partner catching up and each other and with Saturday's Globe.

Notstraight: Are you a cat or a dog lover?
Beth Mairs: I love both very much and live with several at any given time.

Notstraight: Do you like to sing in the shower?
Beth Mairs: Not really! I love to sing and I do that a lot in the privacy of my car. But showers.. I am in and out too fast. More of a bath person.

Notstraight: What was the first film/play you acted in?
Beth Mairs: The first play I acted in was one I wrote and directed in Grade 1. I don't think it had a title. But in Grade 6, I re-wrote Camelot and was not only the director but tried (in my humble fashion) to cast myself as King Arthur. Cross-gender casting was not yet de rigeur in Toronto in 1968 so I lost the part to Greg Osibah, the most popular boy in my class. But Greg and the other boys really admired my plastic play sword collection and- because I was the writer and the director- they sucked up to me the rest of the year.

Notstraight: Do you like to sing karaoke?
Beth Mairs: Hell ya! And don't touch my song: "Moondance."

Notstraight: Would you rather have the power to be invisible or the power to read minds?
Beth Mairs: But I can already read minds! Being invisible is neither a goal nor a gift in my books. How about: the power to help others become more visible. its something I strive for in film.

Notstraight: Do you have some coming out words of wisdom?
Beth Mairs: Be patient with close friends and family who, like you, probably need time to adjust and process this part of your identity.

Notstraight: Thanks Beth for taking the time to answer these quick questions.

Awaiting Atwood Heroines 'Recognize' Margaret Atwood

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Beth Mairs filming a scene for "Awaiting Awood"

Beth Mairs,film director,awaiting atwood,canadian filmmaker,Betty Ann McPherson,The Eric Malette
Starring Betty Ann McPherson & Beth Mairs

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awaiting atwood,canadian actress,Betty Ann McPherson
Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat?

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Banff Mountain Film Festival 2009: Interview with Beth Mairs

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