CHRISTOPHER LEE
is a producer/director currently living in
the San Francisco Bay Area. His works include: The Network, Christopher's
Chronicles, Christopher Does Dallas, Trappings of Transhood,
Alley of the Tranny Boys and Sex Flesh in Blood. His work
has been screened and distributed in the United States and abroad. Christopher
was on the Teddy Award Jury for the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival.
Annie Sprinkle coined his Sex Flesh in Blood as "...the
new revolution in pornography! A work of art." He is the Tranny
Fest co-founder and co-director and has done outreach and media work
for two HIV/AIDS organizations, the Asian/Pacific
Islander Wellness Center's HIV/AIDS support service program for
Transgender People, and the Stop
AIDS Project.
AL AUSTIN is a producer and arts and entertainment
attorney
who, for the past decade, has been producing queer events and benefits.
Some of her productions includeMore for Les, a benefit for transgender
activist and author Leslie Feinberg, and Alternate Vision: Diverse
Images in Queer Cinema, Oakland's 1st queer film festival. Most
recently, Al produced Tranny Fest: Transgender and Transgenre Cinema,
the United State's first transgender film festival, as well as Tranny
Week, a week-long performance and panel discussion event benefiting
various nonprofit Transgender programs in San Francisco. She and her
co-producer, Christopher Lee, were honored with a proclamation from
San Francisco's Mayor, Willie Brown, for their contribution to the community.
Al is the founding attorney of The Austin Law Group: A Law Firm Dedicated
to the Arts.