ACMI Drag Week with special guest Spiro Economopoulos

About this episode

This episode features Spiro Economopoulos discussing ACMI's upcoming Drag Week and its celebration of queer films.

For this Out Takes, we put the spotlight on Drag Week which is coming to ACMI this April which allows you to experience a super-sized week of films that walked so Drag Race could run … in heels! Our special guest was Spiro Economopoulos who has recently joined the team at ACMI to help bring great cinema to the masses in Melbourne and he’s kicking it off with a week long celebration of queer films that highlight the wonderfully diverse world of drag. From April 17 – 23, ACMI will screen twelve films about the art and artists of drag who blazed a trail in this irreverent, outrageous and unapologetic performance style. Spiro helps to break it all down for us including the special screening of ‘The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ as you’ve never seen it before, performed with a live shadow cast of local drag queens Lazy Susan, Zelda Moon, Pashion Couture and Art Simone plus a special live JOY 94.9 outside broadcast from ACMI featuring the Out Takes team from 6 – 7pm before the screening kicks off at 7.30pm – see you there! We also revisited our reviews of ‘Jimpa’ and Pillion , two of our favourite queer films of 2026 that are now…

People in this episode

Guest: Spiro Economopoulos

Topics covered

• drag culture
• queer cinema
• film reviews
• interviews
• LGBTQ+ events

Keywords

• Drag Week
• ACMI
• queer films
• Spiro Economopoulos
• The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
• Jimpa
• Pillion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ACMI

Books & works: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Jimpa, Pillion

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