This program includes the Multi-Galaxy Costume Contest, hosted
by the Flaming Futuristic Empress Alexis Miranda
of the Imperial Court. Come to the Saturday screening in full, sci-fi
regalia and win amazing prizes, including a sitting and portrait
with famous fashion photographer James Geras (whose clients include
Donna Karen) valued at $1200! (click for list
of additional prizes). We suggest you come
to the Roxie box office earlier in the day to get your tix
because this show will SELL OUT!
Special Retro Space movie clip opens this program's journey.
This is followed by a new work by Director Machiko Saito, Pink
Eye, in which the trials and tribulations of a San Francisco
Real-Girl-Drag-Queen's manic attempts at Independent Filmmaking
result in seeking sexual satisfaction and oral gratification with
broken camera parts. Then get your first helping of Whitney:
Mama's Little Baby, promo 1, by Dir. Lawrence Elbert (don't
worry, Whitney will keep popping back throughout the program!)
XXXY brings us a stirring portrait of two intersex individuals
born with ambiguous genitalia and their struggle against the medical
establishment and society's enforced bipolar gender system by
Directors Laleh Soomekh & Porter Gale.
Now, don't touch that dial! Tranny Fest is still in control of
the screen as you propel forward into a Study in the Life of
Transsexuals by Director Dina Boyer. But you are back in control
(right!) as you go visit The Man from Venus, a smart, funny
and generous experimental work which tells it like it is, for
at least one man, by Dir. James Diamond.
Just when you thought you were landing — hold onto your
chairs(!) as Tremeblement de Chair, by Directors Mark Karbusicky
& Mirha-Soleil Ross meditates poetically on the beauty, perils,
and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman's body.
We aren't through yet! Nine transwomen tell their stories of
passion, pain, devastation, and the triumph of a misunderstood
sexual minority in I Am Your Sister by Director Lashambi
Britton.
Then bringing you back home in style, Stacy Foiles Jake: Today
I Became a Man gives you back control of your present with
a charming performance by the youngest drag queen in the festival.
Co-presented by Intersex Society of North America and Film Arts
Foundation
A special thank you in advance for being considerate of other festival
goers and keeping all Tranny Fest events scent-free.
