Deep Stealth Productions is pleased to have a number of projects featured in “transgender Stories,” a new Logo web destination. Check out real stories about real transpeople – their lives, relationships, struggles and triumphs in this collection of films, documentaries, and series.
Already included are:
Music Artists
- Katastrophe
- The Cliks
- Joshua Klipp
Real Momentum Documentary Series
- Southern Comfort
- No Dumb Questions
- Beautiful Daughters
- 100% Woman
- Gender Rebel
- Gender Redesigner
- Girl Inside
Trans Short Films
- Waiting for Yvette
- Casting Pearls
- She Kills He
- Moustache
- Give or Take an Inch
- Real Momentum Shorts: Transgression
Transamerican Love Story
Trans Interviews
- Bad Questions with Calpernia Addams
Check back for more throughout the year!
Transgender Stories at Logo Online
http://www.logoonline.com/video/franchise.jhtml?ctid=2173
Above: Calpernia Addams in “Casting Pearls.”
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its London premiere on 5 April 2008, as part of the 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
The Role I Was Born to Play
Transgender artists challenge Hollywood with stinging media critiques.Casting Pearls (Dir. Andrea James | USA 2007 | 7min)
A punchy series of Hollywood auditions reveals the stereotypes faced by a transsexual actress.The Role I Was Born to Play (Dir. Lukas Blakk | Canada 2007 | 9min)
A clever and heartfelt deconstruction of mainstream Hollywood genderbender flicks.F. Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here (Dir. Jules Rosskam | USA 2007 | 25min)
A white FTM poet and a Black gay physicist question the limits of their intimate friendship during a weekend trip.Godspeed (Dir. Lynn Breedlove, Jen Gilomen | USA 2007 | 16min)
A punk bike messenger’s devotion to his drug habit rivals the intensity of his relationship with his girlfriend.Miggy n Lil (Dir. bug Davidson | USA 2006 | 17min)
A Texan butcher’s dreams come true when a sexy thief stops by for some steak.
Also playing on 4 April is Beautiful Daughters, about Deep Stealth’s 2004 all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues.
The empowering process of constructing and performing an all-trans version of The Vagina Monologues forms the basis of this uplifting documentary. Making the point that ‘queer issues and women’s issues are our issues’, the new monologues draw clear links between sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
The play featured in Ariel Jordan and Josh Aronson’s film was produced by creative duo Andrea James and Calpernia Addams, who together with the creator of the original monologues, Eve Ensler, work collaboratively with a diverse group of trans women to make an entirely new piece. As the day of the performance draws near, big life decisions get made, a vibrant piece of theatre is formed and a community finds a strong collective voice.
Beautiful Daughters is screening with the short “Whatever Suits You”:
Beautiful Daughters (Dir. Josh Aronson | USA 2006 | 61min)
A group of trans women collaborate to form a vibrant piece of theatre.Whatever Suits You (Dir. Ashley Altadonna | USA 2006 | 7min)
The transformation of a suit to a dress reflects one woman’s physical, mental, and emotion transition.
Deep Stealth’s Calpernia Addams is scheduled to appear at both screenings. Please check Calpernia’s blog for the latest updates.
22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival website:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/
Beautiful Daughters has been chosen to screen in the 22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The festival, organized by the British Film Institute (BFI), is the third largest film festival in the UK and attracts audiences of over 25,000. The LLGFF will run from 27 March – 10 April 2008.
The documentary chronicles Deep Stealth Productions’ V-Day LA 2004 event, which was the first-ever all-transgender cast performance of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues. Deep Stealth’s Calpernia Addams will also be performing at the V to the 10th event in New Orleans April 11-12, 2008.
Here’s the annual summary of highlights from Deep Stealth Productions, co-founded by Calpernia Addams and Andrea James:
- Beautiful Daughters was made available free via Logo online
- Episodes of ‘The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch’ and ‘Cristina’ in which Calpernia and Andrea appeared were nominated for GLAAD Media Awards
- Coming Out Volume 2 was made available via Deep Stealth online
- Deep Stealth attended the historic Visible Vote 08 Presidential Forum
- Calpernia and Andrea appeared in the short film Laundromat
Deep Stealth’s short film Casting Pearls was the big project of the year:
- Picked up by Frameline Distribution
- Premiered at Frameline 31
- Played as part of Outfest 25’s Girls Shorts
- Screened at Gay Days Anaheim
- Screened at the Woodstock Film Festival
- Played as part of “best of” screenings in LA and San Francisco
- Played at over a dozen other festivals and screenings
- Had its television premiere on Logo’s The Click List: Best in Short Film
- Picked up by German distributor Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Calpernia and Andrea are currently filming an eight-episode competitive dating series for Logo called ‘Transamerican Love Story,’ scheduled to air in February. Thanks to all who made 2007 such a great year for Deep Stealth!
LOGO network has released the Beautiful Daughters documentary online in its entirety. The program follows the making of the first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monlogues by Eve Ensler, produced by Deep Stealth Productions as part of Eve’s worldwide anti-violence movement VDay.
Beautiful Daughters complete program
Note: LOGOonline video can only be viewed on computers running Windows at this time.
Logo network has made the documentary about Deep Stealth’s all-transgendered Vagina Monologues performance available on iTunes.
Beautiful Daughters aired as part of Logo’s Real Momentum series. To watch it for $1.99, click the link below:
For more on using iTunes, please visit Apple’s iTunes website.
For more on the documentary, please visit LOGO’s page on Beautiful Daughters
Eve Ensler, Andrea James, Calpernia Addams and cast members attended a LOGO-sponsored screening of “Beautiful Daughters” in Hollywood tonight. The screening was followed by a Q&A session and refreshments.
The premiere of the original Logo documentary Beautiful Daughters is on 11 February, and Logo has now added a web page as part of their Real Momentum documentary series.
The documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at the first-ever all-transgender performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. This benefit performance was put on as V-Day LA 2004 by Deep Stealth Productions and featured trans women from around the country.
For clips from the show and information about the documentary, please visit:
Beautiful Daughters on Logo
Beautiful Daughters page on Deep Stealth
The documentary about Deep Stealth Productions’ first-ever all-trans cast of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is scheduled to air on LOGO network on 11 February 2006. The airing coincides with V-Day events around the world, held every February to raise awareness about violence against women and girls.
LOGO is a premium cable network launched in 2005 which focuses on news and entertainment with LGBT themes. Check your local listings and call your cable operator to request LOGO if you do not currently receive it.
The documentary about Deep Stealth Productions’ first-ever all-transgender performance of the Vagina Monologues has its world premiere at the Santa Fe Film Festival this weekend. Join Calpernia and other featured subjects in the film for this special event.
BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS is the first of Eve Ensler’s VAGINA MONOLOGUES performances to focus on transgender sex and transgender women. We meet 60 transgender women from all over the U.S. as they audition and rehearse for their MONOLOGUES performance, participate in one-on-one interviews and group discussions, and speak with utter frankness of their personal heartaches and triumphs.
A few discuss the supportive relationships that help sustain them. Others describe rejection, shaming and violence endured in childhood and beyond—lessons taught by families, schoolmates, teachers, friends and strangers that ?
