"Casting Pearls" screening at Gender Odyssey a success

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