TRANNY FEST
Transgender Film Festival
Tranny Fest transgender film festival returns this November with two evenings of short films and videos and a one-night-only performance event. Co-presented with Fresh Meat Productions, Tranny Fest proves it's not always about size: all films this year are 10 minutes or less. Tickets are only available at the door and seating is limited - make sure to arrive early. Info at: www.freshmeatproductions.org.
Tranny Fest was founded in 1997 and was the nation's first transgender/genderqueer film festival. In the 12 years since, Tranny Fest has exhibited groundbreaking, provocative, outrageous, courageous, moving and innovative works that show the complexity of lives lived on the transgender/genderqueer spectrum. Tranny Fest Director: Shawna Virago.
NOVEMBER 5: TRANNY FEST LIVE!
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Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
1519 Mission at 11th Street, San Francisco
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Award-winning modern dance, maverick performance artists, steamy burlesque and kink chasing rock n' roll adventurers collide in this one-night-only performance event. Featuring Sean Dorsey Dance, King TuffNStuff, Chan Dynasty, StormMiguel Florez, Shawna Virago and The Rice Kings. Emceed by the legendary Fairy Butch. Seating is limited for this one-night-only event - come early!
NOVEMBER 6: TRANNY FEST FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM 1
R IS FOR REVOLUTION
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Friday November 6 |
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Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
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R is for Revolution is a collection of short films that obliterate the two-party gender system. Includes a look at queer farmers, animated trannies, stereotypes that tickle our funnybone, the Sent(a)mental Project, 1960s female impersonation glamour, music videos, the horror of Hollywood, the glory of beards, surveillance and racism in our cities and borders, and a joyous DIY-anthem against street harassment. Featuring:
Dorian: A Picture (Directed by Joe E. Jeffreys)
The Perfect Fit (Directed by Martin Rawlings-Fein)
Out Here: A Queer Farmer Film Project (Directed by Jonah Mossberg)
Kaden Later (Directed by Harriet Storm)
A Guy Named Joe (Directed by Joshua Klipp)
Equal+Opposite (Directed by Rahne Alexander)
Color Watch (Directed by Jillian Soto)
FMB (Directed by Maple Rabbit)
Sent(A)Mental Project: A Memorial to GLBTIQA Suicides (Directed by Dylan Scholinski)
Lexie Cannes: Transition Resistion (Directed by Tom Bertling)
Big Deal (Directed by Hilary Goldberg)
NOVEMBER 7: TRANNY FEST FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2
G IS FOR GLITTER
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Saturday November 7 |
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Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
1519 Mission at 11th Street, San Francisco
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G is for Glitter is a shorts program exploring sex, love and rock n' roll (this program is 18+). Includes the Antony and the Johnsons music video censored in North America - directed by The Wachowski Brothers and choreographed by Fresh Meat Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, the Trannywood boys back with more hot trannyfag action, naughty cooking lessons, music videos, (very) public performance art, lesbian hookups, and dancing defiance. Featuring:
Evil Auntie's Exotic Erotic Wedding Cupcakes (Directed by Leslie Streit)
T4-2 (Directed by Allegra Hirschman & Shellie Citron)
JEmAncipatioN (Directed by Jean Franco)
Misadventures of Pussy Boy: Sick (Directed by Alec Butler)
!smileyfaceheart (Directed by Jai Arun Ravine)
3 Hour Man (Directed by TuffNStuff)
Line of Sight (Directed by Charles Lofton and Elizabeth Steinbock)
Hustle (Directed by Shawna Virago)
Epilepsy is Dancing (Directed by the Wachowski Brothers)
Couch Surfers 2: Trans Men In Action (Directed by Ken Rowe)
Lexie Cannes: Transitional Love (Directed by Tom Bertling)
Shameless (Directed by Ask Holmen)
ACCESS NOTE: Mama Calizo's has wheelchair access via a rear entrance elevator. Ushers will be available to accompany audience members who use wheelchairs or who need elevator access into the venue - come to the front door for info/usher assistance. Email freshmeatinfo(at)gmail.com with any questions or for more info.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Mama Calizo's Voice Factory Present:
TRANNY NOISE AT YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Don't miss this one-night-only special event! Tranny Fest has been invited by Mama Calizo's Voice Factory and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to host an evening of trans and queer performance.
Trannies take over Yerba Buena! Curated by Tranny Fest, TRANNY NOISE features some of the Bay Area's leading trans and genderqueer artists including Storm Florez, Landa Lakes, Josh Klipp, Butch Tap and Shawna Virago.
Tranny Fest is the nation's first transgender/genderqueer performance and film festival. This year's Festival takes place November 5-7.
The 5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Tranny Fest is also a proud Community Partner for The 5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival! June 12-14 2009 at the Brava Theater: 2789 24th Street , SF CA.. This year’s focus is Queer Women and Immigration.
For more information please visit: www.qwocmap.org.
The 6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival!
Tranny Fest is a Proud Community Partner of the 6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival (www.sexworkersfest.com) and FRAMELINE33 San Francisco ’s International LGBT Film Festival (www.frameline.org! Tranny Fest is especially proud to be a Frameline33 Community Partner for Two Outstanding Films!
Saturday June 20th at 4:30pm: Diagnosing Difference directed by Annalise Ophelian at the Victoria Theater 2961 16th Street, SF CA.
How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? Find out when thirteen transgender,
transsexual, and genderqueer individuals explore the impact and implications
of the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis on their lives and communities.
Diagnosing Difference is a vivid, humanizing, critical,
and moving examination of the GID diagnosis that is both educational and
experiential.
Sunday June 21st at 1:30pm: Maggots and Men directed by Cary Cronenwett
Maggots and Men, an experimental historical narrative set in post-revolutionary Russia , re-tells the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with a subtext of gender anarchy. At the Castro Theater 429 Castro Street , SF CA
The 6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival!
May 30th – June 7th 2009
Info.: www.sexworkerfest.com (415)751-1659
Tranny Fest 2008
TRANNY FEST FILM FESTIVAL: November 6-8 2008
All events at: Mama Calizo's Voice Factory 1519 Mission at 11th Street, San Francisco [map]
Thursday November 6 @ 8pm: Tranny Fest Live! (performance event)
Friday November 7 @ 8pm: Gender Apocalypse (short films program)
Saturday November 8 @ 8pm: Pocket Rockets (short films program)
Tickets: $8, at the door
Door For All Events: 7:30pm
Nov. 6 and 7: +18; Nov. 8: +21
Tranny Fest 2008 Co-Presented by Fresh Meat Productions
Tranny Fest LIVE!
Thurs. Nov. 6
Tranny Fest Live! performance event featuring performances by Storm Florez, Shawna Virago, Butch Tap, Twincest, Annie Danger, Carrie Baum and many more!
Tranny Fest Program 1
Gender Apocalypse
Fri. Nov. 7
Drag Queen
Atif Siddiqi
The director says "Drag Queen is a pro transgender rant dance club music video in response to transphobia within the gay community and world at large."
Michelle's First Wedding In A Dress
Ann Von Hageman.
Michelle Hoffman is getting married for the first time in a dress. A documentary.
Queerer Than Thou
Ramses Rodstein
A short comedy that explores the strained lines of queer identity and gives us all a chance to laugh at our competitive desires to prove that we are the "queerest." This is a world premiere.
"Joshua Bastian Cole: an Excerpt from Gender?"
Joie Rey Cohen
The intention of Gender? is to express visually the diversity which exists within the realm of gender identity and expression. Interviews have taken place in North Carolina, Missouri, Washington, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. This excerpt has been taken from Joshua Bastian Cole's personal digital journal documenting his transition experience as a queer in the South.
Ice Skate Canada
Mark Peacock and Michael Boyuk
world premiere
The B-Girlz slide into the nasty world of figure skating in this promo for an upcoming skating competition. It's a slippery trip into the backroom politics and on-ice drama that you don't want to miss.
Replicate
Eric Moloney
world premiere
Using Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor and double 8mm animation as "frames," Replicate is a short, experimental meditation on Western culture's attitudes towards both sickness and the sick.
Trans-Neptune (or The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut
Mathew Long
Drag Queen Cosmonauts: It was the marketing coup of the century, a publicity stunt broadcast live around the globe. 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, lethal an fast acting. The only cure? Smoking space gas. Lots of it!
L1FE
Aarin Burch
Music video featuring transgender artist/singer Joshua Klipp. Choreographed by Sara Bush, Sarah Bush Dance Project. Dancers: Sara Bush and Joi Cox from the East Bay Drag Kings Troupe.
Evil Auntie Makes Roast Aphrodesiac Chicken
Leslie Streit
Evil Auntie entices her guests with a delicious chicken rubbed with herbs and spices known to be aphrodisiacs since ancient times.
Interview with the Destructor
Aryn Zev
California premiere.
A collaboration between a trans identified video artist and trans identified pro wrestler, the Interview with the Destructor raises questions about questions, revealing only the elusive nature of identity.
The Outsiders
Julie Saragosa
world premiere.
A super short super8 remake of the Coppola classic! The directed says," This movie touched my sense of belonging at a time when I felt I had none - teenagehood. Years later, when tomboy-ish has matured into gender-bending queerness, 21 grown 'girls' play at 'boyhood.' A post-post modern experiment of complicity and resistance.
TrannyFest Program 2
Pocket Rockets
Sat. Nov. 8
"Playing With Gender"
Ashley Altadonna
Young people on a picnic learn about gender, gender roles, and transgendered identities in this re-imagining of a 1950's educational film. the film shows how gender is constructed and a multitude of gender identities that fall outside the boundaries of simply male or female.
“Make It Happen! Transforming Justice: Ending the Imprisonment & Criminalization of Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming People” (Teaser)
The Transforming Justice Coalition
Why are so many transgender, gender non-conforming and queer folks without housing, jobs or healthcare, and trapped in the revolving door of the prison system? This short film documents Transforming Justice, a groundbreaking coalition that gathered in October 2007 to end the cycles of poverty, criminalization and imprisonment in transgender and gender non-conforming communities.
The Near-Perfect Wedding
Michael V. Smith.
What do you need to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding? The Near-Perfect Wedding, a DIY Super8 short, will explain all.
Four minutes and thirty-three seconds
Yves Laris Cohen
world premier
4:33 interrogates systems of knowledge and expertise.
Fagette
Ali Cotterill
A trans-fabulous Sunday in the park. It's croquet gone gay, drag-tastic cheerleaders, and synchronized dance, all in an Astroturf wonderland.
Clouded
Ajae Clearway
A beautifully filmed classic coming of age film set in rural Texas in 1963. The story takes a powerful turn when 14-year old Sean Chase's struggle to know who he really is explodes the lie that goes to the core of his being, his family, his relationship with his father and his future as a man.
Bicycle Bondage.
Fivestar
This film teaches you ways to be creative with your bicycle.
Couch Surfers: Trans Men in Action (excerpt)
Trannywood Pictures
This film is definitely gay, definitely FTM, definitely hot!
Crashpad series
Shine Louise Houston
www.crashpadseries.com
Another sexy film from Shine Louise Houston!
Keynote Address
Annie Danger
At this year's annual NAPAA Conference, Erica L. Brown PhD., Psy.D gave a stirring talk regarding her recent work in the field of transsexual phenomena. This video includes the highlights of her keynote address. Dr. Brown was so very kind as to provide her copy of the videotape for this project.
LOST/FOUND
An Evening of New Work Choreographed and Directed by Sean Dorsey
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November 16-18, 2007 |
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Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street @ Mission, San Francisco
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$15 (advance tickets recommended - these shows sell out) |
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www.brownpapertickets.com/event/23309 |
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415-273-4633 |
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Fresh Meat Productions presents the world premiere of Lost/Found, Sean Dorsey’s highly-anticipated new concert of dance. Performed by a groundbreaking all-male cast – transgender, gay and straight – Lost/Found dives into life on the margins of masculinity. Masculinity’s newcomers, trespassers, runaways and misfits spill tales of best friends, diary secrets, teen idols, gender disobedience, bullying, loss and faith.
Lost/Found is performed by a stellar cast of dancers: Sean Dorsey, Brian Fisher, James Graham and Adam Venker, with guest artist writer/performers Kirk Read and Max Wolf Valerio.
Dorsey is celebrated for his fusion of modern dance, storytelling and theater and is blazing a trail celebrated by critics and sold-out audiences alike. He is the winner of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, the Goldie Award for Performance, prestigious commissions, and praise from New York to Los Angeles. Last year, Dorsey’s acclaimed concert The Outsider Chronicles was met with critical praise, sold-out houses and standing ovations. Advance tickets are recommended: these shows will sell out.
TRANNY FEST FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Transgender Film and Video Festival
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November 9 & 10, 2007 |
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LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street @ Octavia, San Francisco
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Tranny Fest and Fresh Meat Productions proudly present two programs of groundbreaking, outrageous and moving films and videos that speak to life lived on the sweet continuum of being transgender and genderqueer. Curated by Tranny Fest Artistic Director Shawna Virago.
Friday November 9 @ 7pm: TransShorts Program
Saturday November 10 @ 7pm: TransErotic Program
Tickets are sold only at the door: arrive early as these programs will sell out!
TRANNY FEST MUSIC NIGHT at Femina Potens
co-presented by Femina Potens
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Friday, November 2 @ 7pm |
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Femina Potens
2199 Market Street, San Francisco
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An evening of live music by some of the Bay Area's favorite trans and genderqueer musicians curated by Storm Florez. Featuring Storm Florez, Shawna Virago, Prado Gomez and Ryka Aoki de la Cruz. Seating is limited - arrive early before this event sells out!
FRESH MEAT IN THE GALLERY at BLUESPACE
New Work by Bobby Cheung and Anne Louise Mortensen
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Weight Wheel
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Untitled
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November 1-30, 2007
HOURS: Wednesdays 2-5pm and by appointment: 415-431-2583 |
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Bluespace Community Space
593 Guerrero Street @ 18th Street, San Francisco
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Thursday, November 1 6pm-9pm |
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Fresh Meat Productions, Tranny Fest and Transgender San Francisco proudly present a mixed media exhibition by local artists Bobby Cheung and Anne Louise Mortenson. Drawing, photography, graphic design and mixed media works.
TRANNY FEST RETURNS IN NOVEMBER 2007!
Transgender Multi-Arts Festival
Co-presented by Tranny Fest and Fresh Meat Productions
SAVE THE DATE! Tranny Fest, the nation's first transgender film and video festival, returns in November 2007 with a month-long multi-arts Festival that includes film, music, art and dance!
WEEKEND ONE:
FRESH MEAT IN THE GALLERY AT BLUESPACE reception
TRANNY FEST MUSIC NIGHT at Femina Potens
WEEKEND TWO:
TRANNY FEST FILM AND VIDEO programs 1 & 2
WEEKEND THREE:
SEAN DORSEY'S 'LOST/FOUND' dance concert |
Tranny Fest is proud to co-sponsor two programs for Frameline 31, the 2007 San Francisco LGBT International film Festival! Friday June 15: Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother( this transition documentary by Aliexis Arquetter screens 7pm at the Victoria ) and Monday June 18: Boys to Men (these shorts by and about FTM folks screens 9:15pm at the Roxie). Go to www.frameline.org for info. Frameline31 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival runs June 14-24 2007
Tranny
Fest Highlighted in Release Print
Tranny Fest, the transgender
/ transgenre film festival, was included in the July/August
2006 Issue of Release Print. The article was titled "Where's
Our Dykeback Mountain? LGBT Media at the Crossroads." The
article reviews the Frameline Festival, asking the question,
"whose version of queerness are we watching?" Click
here to download the article.
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(From
Left) Christopher, Shawna and Al @ Fest 2003
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Co-Directors Al Austin and Christopher
Lee Retire, Shawna Virago Now Festival Director Tranny
Fest Founders and Co-Directors, Al Austin and Christopher
Lee recently retired from Tranny Fest, leaving the world's
first transgender film festival and cultural event in the
hands
of their 2003
Co-Director, Shawna Virago. Click
here to read Shawna's biography.
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