The “Casting Pearls” MySpace page has been updated with previously unpublished production stills and behind-the-scenes photos. The short film starring Calpernia Addams and directed by Andrea James is scheduled to premiere on Logo as part of ‘The Click List: Best in Short Film’ on Wednesday October 24 at 10pm Eastern. Check your local listings.
"Casting Pearls” has been scheduled to air on the Logo series ‘The Click List: Best in Short Film’ on Wednesday October 24 at 10pm. Check your local listings.
“Casting Pearls” has been scheduled to air on the Logo series ‘The Click List: Best in Short Film’ on Wednesday October 24 at 10pm. Check your local listings.
Now in its 4th season, ‘The Click List: Best in Short Film’ showcases emerging LGBT filmmakers. “Casting Pearls” stars Calpernia Addams and was directed by Andrea James. The 7-minute short follows a transsexual actress as she endures a hectic series of auditions, showcasing some of the difficulties trans women face in Hollywood.
adelante films has just released the trailer for the new short film “Laundromat.” Set in a neighbourhood laundromat, this dramedy follows a young gay couple who, after a chance encounter with an older man, realize that the little things mean nothing and everything when it comes to love. Written + directed by: Edward Gunawan Photographed by: David Maurice Gil. This is the second short in a series produced by adelante films. Andrea James and Calpernia Addams of Deep Stealth Productions play Angie and Maya in the film.
Roberto Friedman at Bay Area Reporter mentioned “Casting Pearls” as among the highlights of this Saturday’s 12-hour film festival in San Francisco. Directed by Andrea James and starring Calpernia Addams, the film will run with other notable shorts from the festival.
Coming up this Saturday, Sept. 22, Frameline will present Best of the Fest 2007, a one-day film event featuring audience favorites and award-winning films from the 31st SF International LGBT Film Festival. The films will screen for over 12 hours at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th St., SF.
Best of the Fest 2007 highlights include the sensuous Glue, this year’s Best First Feature; and Spider Lilies, a fest fave and winner of the Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Queer Feature. Also on tap, two award-winning documentaries: the Audience Award for Best Documentary, Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey, about a gay Marine stationed in Iraq; and Red Without Blue, the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award-winner, the story of identical twins Alex and Mark as they struggle to reconcile their painful adolescence and Alex’s decision to transition to a woman.
Short films will include Audience Award-winner Pariah; Casting Pearls, starring Calpernia Addams ; the comedy Members Only; Australia’s Prada Handbag; and Cowboy Forever. Tickets are $12 for Frameline members, $15 for the public; and passes to the entire day are $50 for Frameliners, $65 for public. Info, go to frameline.org.
The Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has announced “Casting Pearls” will screen on a double bill with the 2002 French drama “Un Autre Femme” ("Another Woman"):
Saturday, October 13, 2007 @ 2:00 PM
The Crest Theater
1013 K Street
Sacramento, CA
- Casting Pearls
Director Andrea James, 2006, USA, 7min
Calpernia Addams stars as a transsexual actress who endures a series of Hollywood auditions, each humorously spotlighting a different prejudice or misconception that transwomen encounter.
- Another Woman (Un Autre Femme)
Director Jerome Foulon, 2002, France
French with English Subtitles, 106min
Transsexual woman Lea returns to France and the family she left behind after disappearing for years during her transition.
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will be playing with the groundbreaking documentary “Red Without Blue” at the Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:
Saturday, September 29 @ 3:00pm
Southwest Film Center
University of New Mexico Student Union Building
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505.277.5608
Red Without Blue
Identical twins Mark and Alex Farley began life as close as two brothers born minutes apart can be, happily visiting Disneyland, celebrating birthdays, and being each other’s best friend. Their childhood, while appearing happy, was later revealed to be a tragic, disturbing and chaotic mess of divorce, drugs and sexual confusion. After a joint suicide attempt, the two young men part ways and move to opposite ends of the country. Unbeknownst to each other, they also gravitate to opposite ends of the sexual spectrum, with Mark finding a boyfriend in San Francisco and Alex finding himself transforming into a woman named Claire in New York City. Red Without Blue is a true-life chronicle of three years in the life of the Farley brothers as they succumb to the desire to reunite and attempt to reconcile their obvious differences with their parents, each other, and their inner selves. – Jeremy Olsen (USA, 2007, 76 min, dir: Brooke Sebold/Benita Sills/Todd Sills)
Casting Pearls
Calernia Addams stars as a transsexual actress who endures a series of Hollywood auditions.
(USA, 2006, 7 min, dir: Andrea James)
