🎬 The Pain And The Power is now playing as an Official Selection of the Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival!
For a limited time, you can watch Cai Indermaur’s award-winning documentary from anywhere in the world, as part of the Lift-Off Global Network Limited festival program.
This is one of the first opportunities to see the film ahead of our upcoming theatrical screenings, and every view helps support its festival journey.
It’s showing August 3-September 23 as an Official Selection at the fest. If you’re watching, we’d love your vote afterward — but most importantly, thank you for supporting independent LGBTQ+ cinema and the incredible community helping bring this film to audiences around the world.
Jul 28, 2026Comments Off on AMERIKKKA and Everything And Everyone You Have Ever Known
Two more new songs from The Pain And The Power original motion picture soundtrack are out today, via PortuGAY at KNIK Records / Secretly Canadian.
Side A: AMERIKKKA
Side B: Everything And Everyone You Have Ever Known
AMERIKKKA is perhaps the most confrontational song I’ve ever written. It’s about watching queer and trans people become political targets in real time and recognizing that, for many of us, the danger is no longer theoretical. It’s about the grief and terror of realizing that the country I call home is increasingly willing to erase my humanity — and wondering what I am supposed to do when it’s already too late to run.
Everything And Everyone You Have Ever Known turns that lens inward. While side A confronts the violence of the outside world, side B explores the interior landscape of isolation, memory, and survival. As a queer man, I’ve spent much of my life navigating loneliness, addiction, loss, and the feeling of existing on the margins. It’s about the moment when external noise fades and I am left alone with myself, carrying the weight of everyone I have loved, everyone I have lost, and every version of myself I have had to leave behind. Read the rest of this entry »
