BaltimoreSun.com – By Chris Kaltenbach
Steve Yeager appears caught off-guard when asked if he set out to earn a reputation as a filmmaker focusing on Baltimore’s marginalized. The thought, it seems, has never really occurred to him.
And yet, it’s an obvious question. His first narrative film, 1990’s On the Block, the story of a stripper struggling to go legit, was set and filmed in Baltimore’s notorious red-light district. His biggest success, 1998’s award-winning documentary Divine Trash, chronicled Baltimore’s merriest bunch of misfits, the cast and crew of John Waters’ reprobate 1972 masterpiece, Pink Flamingos. And his latest movie, Crystal Fog, which gets its world premiere Wednesday at the Charles Theatre, focuses on a love triangle with a drag queen at its center.