FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA:
TRICK OR TRANNY?
Coming to a Theatre Near You!"

CONTACT:
Beth Doyle
Tranny Fest Publicity
584 Castro Street, #273
San Francisco, CA 94114
Tel. 415-820-3223
Fax. 415-282-4536
Email. trannyfest@aol.com
http://www.trannyfest.com

DATE: September 10, 1999

Tranny Fest: The Transgender & Transgenre Cinema Film Festival
October 30th, 1999 Noon til Midnight @ The Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St. San Francisco, California

We're ba-a-a-a-a-ck! It's that TRICK OR TRANNY time of year! Come celebrate Halloween and gender diversity at the 3rd annual Tranny Fest. Films, Fangs and Fun!!! Tranny Fest, as featured in weekly Variety, Aug 30th-Sept5, showcases films and videos on the sweet complexity, diversity and sex appeal of lives lived on the gender continuum. With its "Trick or Tranny" Halloween theme, this year's Tranny Fest promises to be a one-day mega-gender celluloid costume extravaganza!

Extra added Attraction: THE TRANNY FEST MILLENIUM COSTUME CONTEST hosted by Empress Alexis Miranda! Mayor Willie Brown will kick off the 7:30 show and costume contest. Come see Count Dragula from TRANSylvania! FrankenGender! I Was a Teenage Tranny! AND Da Mayor! True to its multiracial, multicultural, and multi-genre vision, Tranny Fest showcases films which portray the rich mix of transgender lives in every conceivable film genre and style in a "finger-snapping, groin-bumping, tear-jerking, heartwarming, gut-bustin' mix of experimental, documentary, drama and pornographic films."

The festival includes films and videos screening in five different programs. This year's features include: Local films including Susan Stryker & Victor Silverman's Documenting San Francisco's Transgender History; and Ray Rea's StraightBoy Lessons; Monika Treut's documentary Gendernauts; from France, Phillip Brook & Laurent Bocahut's documentary of the Ivory Coast, Cheri Woubi; and the sexy XXX Hardcore Goth-punk porn from Christopher Lee & J Zapata, Sex Flesh in Blood. Advance all-show passes, $28.00 will be available at Good Vibrations, San Francisco and Berkley and Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco.

Come to the country's only week long trans arts and cultural event: Live Performance Event - Trans Cultural week grand opening show. Tuesday, October 26 @ 7 pm at the Tenderloin Aids Resource Center (TARC) 187 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco. Special appearance by Tom Ammiano. Filmmaker & Stars Panel "21st Century Trans-Building for Our Future in Film." Join Trannyfest filmmakers to discuss their work and Trans images in Media- Wednesday, October 27, 7pm City Blend Cafe, 3087 16th St. Schmooze Fest Reception Meet the directors, producers and stars - Thursday, October 28 @ 6:30-9pm @ Chat House, 139 8th Street at Minna St. Swing 'n Salsa Dance Learn the Frankengender Shuffle October 29 @ 7-11pm Proyecto Contra SIDA por Vida, 2973 16th St., San Francisco. Dance lessons with Inka & Adella.

About Tranny Fest: Transgender & Transgenre Cinema Tranny Fest, established 1997, is the only film festival and cultural week in the world dedicated to generating positive media images of transgendered people. By showcasing films and videos, as well as panel discussions and live performances, Tranny Fest attempts to portray the totality and richness of transgendered lives. Tranny Fest strives to be inclusive of the various racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities which make up the larger transgendered/queer community. Tranny Fest is based in San Francisco where it produces a yearly film festival and a week of events celebrating Tranny culture and through collaboration with community-based non-profit agencies provides outreach and education to and about the transgender community.

About the Festival Directors Co-founders & Co-directors of Tranny Fest: Transgender & Transgenre Cinema, Tranny Fest was first conceptualized and produced in 1997 by Christopher Lee and Al Austin. Christopher Lee is a producer/director currently living in the Bay Area. His works include: The Network, Christopher’s Chronicles, Trappings of Trannyhood, Alley of the Tranny Boys, and Sex Flesh in Blood. Al Austin has been producing queer events and benefits for the last decade. Her work includes: 'More for Les,' a benefit for Transgender activist Leslie Feinberg and 'Alternate Vision: Diverse Images in Queer Cinema,' Oakland's first queer film festival. She is the founding attorney of The Austin Law Group, A Law Firm Dedicated to the Arts.

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