Kieran Turner, the documentary filmmaker behind Jobriath A.D. (2012), has died. He was 56.
In accordance with his rep, the Eight Monitor Tape Productions founder and 2021 CNN Docuseries Fellow died from most cancers on Monday, Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. A celebration of life is deliberate for January.
His 2012 documentary Jobriath A.D. detailed the rise and fall of the titular pioneering ’70s glam-rock musician, the primary brazenly homosexual rock star. The movie impressed a re-release of Jobriath’s catalogue.
Turner’s remaining documentary, Ghost Lights: Reclaiming Theater within the Age of AIDS, examines the affect the AIDS epidemic had on the theater trade, that includes greater than 150 interviews with trailblazers and theater stars. Though Turner died amid manufacturing, Smart Youngster Studios and producer Christianne Tisdale, in partnership with govt producers Brett Morgan and Jonathan Groff, will accomplished the mission in his honor.
The filmmaker’s work “targeted on shining a light-weight on homosexual artists who, like himself, handed earlier than their time.”
His screenplay Black Canines made the 2022 Black Checklist and is at the moment in improvement with Star Thrower Leisure.
After receiving his BFA and MFA from NYU’s Tisch College of Arts, his graduate thesis 24 Nights performed at festivals worldwide earlier than TLA Releasing picked up the characteristic for distribution, making it one of many first Christmas movies to characteristic a homosexual love story.
Turner additionally created the online collection Wallflowers, which ran for 2 seasons on Stage17 and is now streaming on Dekkoo.
Turner is survived by his cousins on the East Coast and his chosen household.
