Thursday, January 31, 2008
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” 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.
Directed by Andrea James, Casting Pearls illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (played by Calpernia Addams). Cassandra weathers the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood professionals with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can’t hold back the real contributions of transgender people to the arts and media.
Deep Stealth’s Calpernia Addams is scheduled to appear at the London event and to participate in a forum about transgender and media.
* London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
* British Film Institute
* Casting Pearls website
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Those who don’t get Logo can view episodes of Transamerican Love Story via iTunes. Just go to the iTunes Store and type “transamerican” in the search box.
Episode One “Getting to Know You” is available right now.
You can buy a season pass for $13.99 and save money in addition to seeing the episodes early.
* Transamerican Love Story via iTunes
Monday, January 28, 2008
Calpernia Addams and Andrea James of Deep Stealth Productions are pleased to announce that the Transamerican Love Story official website just opened.
Premieres Monday, Feb. 11th at 10pm ET
Alec Mapa hosts this groundbreaking and frolicsome elimination dating show. Our transgender bachelorette, Calpernia Addams, finds herself in a modern day fairytale as she’s being wooed by eight dashing men. With the help of her trans best friend, Andrea & a parade of challenges and dates, Calpernia whittles down her group of suitors in hope of finding her prince charming.
* Transamerican Love Story at logoonline.com
Friday, January 18, 2008
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.
* London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
* V to the Tenth
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
The New York Times has added Casting Pearls to its film database. Their system allows reader ratings, so please vote for the highest-ranked trans-themed short film in the history of Logo’s The Click List: Best in Short Film.
*Casting Pearls listing on New York Times
*Casting Pearls on Logo
Thursday, January 03, 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!
