The three began working together after Kalamka and West met following a 1999 screening of black gay filmmaker and scholar Marlon Riggs' film Tongues Untied.

All this apparently had a profound influence on today's generation of un-self-conscious and unapologetic gay filmmakers and performers.

De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country.

It stars Rituparno Ghosh and Indraneil Sengupta in lead role, while Ghosh is playing as a gay filmmaker.

A gay young filmmaker, Joe Somodi, tried unsuccessfully to raise money for a documentary that would follow Tuaolo's coming-out process.