The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is set to open with Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, about the 1980s and 1990s Canadian queer trailblazer, organizers said Tuesday.
The doc feature from director Michelle Mama centers on “High School Confidential” singer Carole Pope, who broke barriers for gay musicians on Canadian radio in the 1980s as co-lead of the Rough Trade rock band.
“Carole Pope arrived on the music scene like a meteor, writing about love and lust and queerness in ways nobody had ever seen. A film about her life is long overdue and it was my honor to be the one to bring it to the screen,” Mama said in a statement about the film with appearances by k.d. lang, Peaches, Jann Arden and Rufus Wainwright.
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