"Casting Pearls” received a rave review from Washington, DC’s Metro Weekly
"Casting Pearls” received a rave review from Washington, DC’s Metro Weekly as part of the Reel Affirmations film festival:
The gem of this collection is Casting Pearls (triangletriangletriangletriangletriangle), featuring actress Calpernia Addams (Transamerican Love Story) as she undergoes a series of auditions for roles, some humiliating, some moronic, none especially worthwhile. Brilliantly played by Addams directly into the camera, it is a terrifically funny jab at Hollywood stereotypes.
On October 3, 2002, Deep Stealth Productions opened for business with the release of the instructional video “Finding Your Female Voice.” Since then we have created dozens of videos and other materials for the transgender community.
Stay tuned for some exciting news about our latest project “Transproofed” later this year.
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Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Indianapolis premiere on November 14-16, 2008 as part of the Indianapolis LGBT film festival.
IUPUI Campus Center
420 University Blvd. (between Michigan and New York)
From the Frameline website:
Casting Pearls is a short comedic film which illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (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.
Dir: Andrea James, USA, 2007, English, 7min
The Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival is a benefit of the Indiana Youth Group, a nonprofit organization that offers support to LGBT youth in Indiana. For more information and tickets, please visit their website:
Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Washington DC premiere on October 22, 2008 as part of Reel Affirmations 18: The nation’s LGBT film festival.
Casting Pearls Calpernia Addams, transsexual author, and star of Logo’s Transamerican Love Story, journeys on a hectic series of auditions illustrating casting difficulties facing trans-women in Hollywood.
Dir: Andrea James, USA, 2007, English, 7min
For more information and tickets, please visit their website:
Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Copenhagen premiere on October 17, 2008 as part of the Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Denmark.
Casting Pearls
Dir. Andrea James
U.S.A. 7 min.
Short narrative
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 offers the first video in the “Coming Out” series for transsexual people for FREE online
Deep Stealth is excited to announce that the first video in our “Coming Out” series for transsexual people is now available for FREE viewing online as part of our Beta testing of this new business model. By exchanging traditional purchase for advertising revenue, we hope to make this information available to as many people in need as possible, while still funding our work here at Deep Stealth. Please feel free to share this link and view the video as much as you like!
http://www.genderlife.com/video
