Media Appearances
Catch the latest Deep Stealth Project on film, television or radio.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Deep Stealth Productions is pleased to announce that “Casting Pearls” has been selected for the 2007 Fresno Reel Pride Festival. It will be screening with the French feature Un Autre Femme.
Friday, September 21 at 7:00pm
The Starline
831 E. Fern Avenue, Fresno, CA 93728
(next to Livingstone’s Restaurant)
The Starline is located one block north of the Tower Theatre. The box office at the Starline will open 20 minutes before each screening.
Casting Pearls
Director: Andrea James
2006, USA, 7 Minutes
Calpernia Addams stars as a transsexual actress learning the ins and outs (mostly outs) of auditioning for female parts in Hollywood.
Un Autre Femme
Director: Jerome Foulon
2002, France, 106 minutes. In French with English subtitles
French actress Nathalie Mann is captivating in this award-winning performance as a post-op transsexual woman trying to connect, albeit reluctantly at first, with the family she produced years ago as a miserable man.
Fresno Reel Pride, through the universal appeal of movies, works to produce a major cultural event for the entire Central Valley community designed to enhance community acceptance and understanding while adding to the diversity of a culturally rich city.
For more information:
* Casting Pearls/Un Autre Femme screening
* Ticketing information: Fresno Reel Pride
* “Casting Pearls” website
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) has announced its 2007 lineup in Austin September 28 - October 4. “Casting Pearls” by Deep Stealth Productions will play in the “Trans Journeys” series:
Saturday, September 29
2:15 PM
Regal Arbor Theater
9828 Great Hills Trail
Austin, TX 78759
Films in “Trans Journeys”:
- Through The Woods (directed by Malic Amalya, 14 minutes) : A transgendered retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
- Jaywalking (directed by Kathy Huang and Leigh Iacobucci, 9 minutes): About up-and-coming drag king star Jay Walker.
- Donny & Ginger (directed by Jon Bush, 10 minutes): A drag-queen hooker and a cop meet up on a lonely street one cold dark night.
- Casting Pearls (directed by Andrea James, 7 minutes): Calpernia Addams stars as The Actress as she endures a series of casting calls.
- The Birthday (directed by Daisy Mohr and Negin Kianfar, 63 minutes): An Iranian transsexual woman’s experiences transitioning.
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) is the oldest and largest gay and lesbian film festival in the Southwest. For more information on the program, see:
* aGLIFF: Trans Journeys (Shorts)
For more on the Deep Stealth short:
* “Casting Pearls” website
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"Casting Pearls,” a short film directed by Andrea James and starring Calpernia Addams, will screen as part of Frameline’s Best of the Fest Shorts in San Francisco: “This Best of the Fest shorts program highlights five fantastic shorts representing the best from the year’s LGBT cinema. Be inspired and delighted with these bold, beautiful and award-winning short films.”
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Roxie Film Center
3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Buy tickets online
- Casting Pearls (directed by Andrea James, 7 minutes): Starring Calpernia Addams
- Members Only (directed by Carolina Roca-Smith, 10 minutes)
- Prada Handbag (directed by Stuart Vauvert, 22 minutes)
- Cowboy Forever (directed by Jean-Baptiste Erreca , 26 minutes)
- Pariah (directed by Dee Rees, 28 minutes): Frameline31 Audience Award Winner for Best Short Film
Full descriptions:
Frameline: Best of the Fest Shorts
Reserve your tickets now:
Buy tickets online
Friday, September 07, 2007
Deep Stealth Productions was proud to be part of the 2007 Gender Odyssey conference in Seattle through a screening of the short film “Casting Pearls” on Saturday, September 1st at the Northwest Film Forum.
UNIQUE JOURNEYS: SHORT FILMS
How do we get to the life we want to lead? How many struggles and triumphs are along the way? These films chronicle this process in a variety of ways.
TRANNYMALS GO TO COURT, dirs. Dylan Vade & Abe Bernard, 2007, 12 min.
Eight fierce and fiery-talking genitals expose harmful legal practices and spread unapologetic tranny pride.
CASTING PEARLS, dir. Andrea James, 2006, 7 min.
Transsexual actress Cassandra (Calpernia Addams) endures a series of Hollywood auditions.
MAGGOTS AND MEN, dir. Oakie Treadwell, 2006, 5 min.
A trailer for a historical drama set in post-revolutionary Russia, shot by a cast and crew rampant with gender anarchy.
TASK/IN-PROGRESS, dir. K. Terumi Shorb, 2004, 6 min.
An experimental exploration of race, masculinity, and gender identity.
STRANGE OBJECTS, dir. Jude Mahan, 2004, 4 min.
A high-schooler’s response to the filmmaker’s self-portrait sparks this exploration of appearance in the context of gender, class, and ethnicity.
QUEERING GENDER, dir. Kalil Cohen, 2005, 25 min.
A documentary exploring an array of gender identities, including genderqueer and trans identities, disrupting the notion of “binary” gender.
Gender Odyssey is a conference whose programming is focused on the needs and interests of transmen, genderqueers, FTMs, and other gender-variant people. Gender Odyssey is proud to be the only long-standing national conference with a transmasculine emphasis. For more information, including the important new family conference:
* Gender Odyssey Film Festival
* Gender Odyssey Family
* Casting Pearls website
Monday, August 27, 2007
Calpernia Addams and Andrea James of Deep Stealth Productions were guests on today’s Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Frank and co-host Doria Biddle chatted about what’s in store for “Casting Pearls,” a 7-minute short about a transsexual actresss in Hollywood. Other topics included Transamerica, the first all-trans production of the Vagina Monologues, and a short being filmed this week featuring Andrea and Calpernia.
* The Frank DeCaro Show
* Sirius OutQ
* “Casting Pearls” webpage
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Xeni Jardin of boingboing attended the Sunday screening of Girls’ Shorts at Outfest and added a nice writeup of “Casting Pearls” on that site:
“Pearls" is a sharp, funny comedic short told from the pov of a transgendered actress doing her best to remain human while trying to make a living in Hollywood. Contains the most hilarious use of a plastic sausage biscuit ever captured in a motion picture.
* Xeni Jardin official site
