Growing up as a pre-teen in rural New Zealand, filmmaker Paloma Schneideman found herself with “lots of boyfriends”. Or rather boys who, really, were just friends. “I always had so many boyfriends ‘cos we were just buddies, you know?” she recalls today, from home in Auckland. As she broached her early teens though, her friendships […] The post Big Girls Don’t Cry, the film about coming of age as a queer teen girl in rural New Zealand: ‘It’s a hot mess!’ appeared first on PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news .