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.

To celebrate our anniversary month, we are offering a $5.00 discount on all Survival Kits (Voice, Face, Coming Out or Ultimate) throughout the month of October! Just enter the code “GWZC4SKU” during your order to get $5.00 off.

* http://www.genderlife.com/shop/

Thank you for your support over the last six years!

Co-founders Calpernia Addams and Andrea James

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:

http://www.indylgbtfilmfest.com/

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.

Funny Girl Wednesday
Wednesday 22 October @ 7pm Sixth and I Synagogue
http://reelaffirmations.bside.com/2008/films/funnygirlwednesday_reelaffirmations2008

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:

http://www.reelaffirmations.org/

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.

For details, please visit their website:

http://www.copenhagen-gay-life.dk/index/gay_guide/events/gaylesbian_film_festival

Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will screen four times at the Jacob Burns Film Center as part of Out at the Movies: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender films from May 15-28, 2008. Sponsored by Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan.

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.
with
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.

To order tickets, please visit:
https://tickets.burnsfilmcenter.org/php/calendar.php

Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will screen as part of the 2008 Athens International Film and Video Festival.

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

The lineup for LGBT Visions 2 :

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/

Ticket information:
http://www.athensfest.org/?view=tickets

Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Toronto premiere in May 2008, as part of the Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival.

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.

Screening times will be posted when available.

Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival website:
http://www.insideout.on.ca/

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.

The Role I Was Born to Play
Transgender artists challenge Hollywood with stinging media critiques.

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.

Beautiful Daughters

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.

22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival website:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/

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.

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Casting Pearls is available to watch free online at logoonline.com. Click List Season 5 starts soon, so tune in to Logo or go to Logo online for the latest in LGBT short film.