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
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Sunday May 25 @ 4:45pm
Monday May 26 @ 7pm
Tuesday May 27 @ 6pm
Tuesday May 27 @ 7:55pm
Tickets are $6 for members, $10 for non-members.
It will screen with the transgender gospel documentary The Believers.
The Believers
May 25-27
"Engaging...might set more than a few conservative Christian mindsets reeling.” (Variety)
Full of rousing gospel music, The Believers profiles the award-winning Transcendence Gospel Choir, the world’s first transgender group of its kind. As we see and hear the chorus rise from shaky beginnings to its impressively polished presence today, we follow some of its members through their transformation and as they battle fears that changing one’s gender goes against the word of God. An illuminating portrait of the complex intersection between faith, gender identity, sexuality, and social justice. Directed by Todd Holland. 2006. 80 m. NR. US. Frameline.
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Casting Pearls
A short comedy starring the incomparable Calpernia Addams as an actress on a hectic series of auditions. She’s bombarded by comments both funny and cruel, but she carries on, an example to transgender people everywhere. Directed by Andrea James. 2007. 7 m. NR. US. Frameline.
The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to: presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world cinema; promoting visual literacy; and making film a vibrant part of the community.
Thursday 1 May 2008
7:00 PM
Baker Center Theater (second floor of Baker University Center)
All shows at Baker Center Theater are FREE!
One Park Place
Athens, OH 45701
Baker University Center Parking Garage is underground, at the lower entrance to the Center. There is also public metered parking adjacent to the upper entrance.
http://www.ohio.edu/center
A Taste of Home
Dir. David Yun
U.S.A 7min
Short documentary
In A Taste of Home filmmaker David Yun attempts to reconcile the feelings of alienation he experienced while growing up in a suburban Detroit town with the emotions felt after returning home to care for his terminally ill mother. Combining landscape cinematography with a highly personal voiceover, A Taste of Home documents the filmmaker’s changing relationship with his hometown under these new sets of circumstances while relating to larger questions of identity and our always changing relationships to our familial and communal histories.
Prada Handbag
Stuart Vauvert
Australia 22 min.
Short narrative
What’s a girl to do when a rare hair-loss condition leaves her with an obsession for zany wigs and make-up? Become a drag queen, of course! Prada Hamburg, child of the famous shoe designer, may not have any hair, but she does have a fabulous wig collection. Having always been an outsider, Prada finally finds her niche when she lands a job at a kooky drag bar full of colorful characters - a world of sequins, feathers and false eyelashes - and assumes the new identity of Prada Handbag.
Members Only
Dir. Carolina Roca-Smith
U.S.A. 10 min.
Short narrative
Amy, the new kid in town, can’t seem to get a date…. Or even a woman to look in her direction until she meets power lesbian, Joan Fox. Joan isn’t interested in love, but does have a corner on the market. Luckily for Amy, it’s for sale.’
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.
Frontbum Dancin’
Dir. Tonnett Stanford
Australia 7 min.
Short narrative
It’s aggressive, it’s artistic, it’s visually stunning…This is Frontbum Dancin’.
Tokens
Dir. Julie Casper Roth
U.S.A. 18 min.
Short experimental
Tokens is an experimental narrative that explores the intersection of sexuality and Mormonism at a pivotal moment in a young woman’s life.
Trans Neptune
Dir. Matthew Long
Canada 14 min.
Short narrative
Drag Queen Cosmonauts: It was the marketing coup of the century, a publicity stunt broadcast live around the globe. For a moment it seemed the public was interested in Space again. But who could have guessed at the calamity that the crew of the Space Vessel Xanadine would unlock at the far edge of the solar system? Viruses. Fast Acting. Lethal. Now, with mankind infected, society all but collapsed, and a price on her head, Pandora, the last of the Drag Queen Cosmonauts, takes solace in the only hope left: smoking Space Gas. Is it a cure, or a potent addiction?
The Athens International Film and Video Festival was founded in 1974, and since then has presented independent films from around the world. The Festival is sponsored by the Athens Center for Film and Video, a project of the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University.
http://www.athensfest.org/
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 Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its London premiere on 5 April 2008, as part of the 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
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.
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.
