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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
***ONLINE TICKETS FOR OPENING NIGHT ARE SOLD OUT,
BUT WE WILL BE SELLING TICKETS AT THE DOOR,
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED! (COME EARLY)***
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November 7-9, 2014
VENUE: Roxie Theater
(3117 16th Street, San Francisco CA)
DATES/TIMES:
Friday November 7 @ 8pm
Saturday November 8 @ 7:30pm *and* 9:30pm
Sunday November 9 @ 2:30pm *and* 4:00pm
(NOTE: 9:30pm program on Nov 8 is 18+ only)
INFO: www.sftff.org
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The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) screens films that promote the visibility of transgender and gender variant people and challenge the mainstream media's negative stereotypes of our communities. We provide opportunities for transgender and gender variant media artists, build community through our film and performance events, and engage our audiences in cross-community dialogue.
Founded in 1997 and originally named Tranny Fest, SFTFF was North America's first transgender film festival. We organized our first festival for the same reason so many other marginalized communities have organized film festivals: the absence of authentic representations of our lives and experiences in the mainstream commercial media. Originally a biennial event, SFTFF screened films and videos by transgender and gender variant media artists whose work challenged stereotypes. We primarily served filmmakers with extremely limited access to venues. After five biennual festivals, overwhelming audience demand led our organizers to begin staging the Festival as an annual event in 1997.
Join us for three days and nights of award-winning transgender cinema, dynamic programs of local, national and international films by transgender and gender variant artists from around the world.
www.SFTFF.org
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2014 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
Festival Schedule & Program Information
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7th Opening Night Transgender Shorts Program 8pm
Genderless Jellyfish
Shot at the Vancouver Aquarium this film enthusiastically loves on the magical and ancient jellyfish. The film highlights the jellyfish's bizarre traits including its gender free existence, non touching sex and its spooky immortality. Directed by Coral Short
Butterfly
From Northern Ireland, Adrianne and Karl, a transgender couple, both diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, confront their own Gender identity and find salvation in each other as their relationship blossoms and changes their lives. People who are different strive for the same things as everyone else. 'Butterfly' is a unique and heartwarming story about the human condition, about acceptance and feeling part of a community. Directed by Stuart McLaughlin.
Occidental Paradise
Exploring "self-reflections" in the empire of information and images, this film presents an unsettling assemblage of cultural texts on Thailand that often pass as common sense. Directed by Bo Luengsuraswat
Phatima
For the last 20 years, Phatima Rude has pioneered the performative alternative queer punk drag scene that has now become internationally famous, yet Phatima remains on the fringe of society, living out of a van. This gritty and intimate documentary follows Phatima's struggles and triumphs with illness, poverty, addiction, and gender identity. Directed by Paul King
You're Dead To Me
A grieving Chicana mother confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death offers her a choice that she couldn't make in life. Directed by Wu Tsang
Teagan
From Australia, A story of transition from male to female, and from despondency to happiness. Using recorded interview material and representative artwork, this short touches on the fear and loneliness of living in the closet, and the joy and confidence that comes with stepping into the light. Directed by Igor Coric & Sheldon Lieberman
Flying Solo
At 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow. Directed by Leslie Von Pless
Black Is Blue
Director Cheryl Dunye's BLACK IS BLUE is a powerful look at stealth trans man security guard who is forced to resolve some unanticipated inner conflicts from the past.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8th Against the Grain! 7:30pm
Sissy
What exactly is a sissy? Sissy explores masculinity, gender identity, misogyny and self-acceptance. Directed by Jen Crothers
Brace
In this gritty, contemporary, romantic drama set in London, Adam meets Rocky, a handsome and mysterious drifter. As the pair gets closer, Rocky seems eager to reveal a secret that Adam is not ready to hear. Silence abounds until one explosive night changes everything about the way they feel about themselves and each other. Directors: Alicya Eyo, Sophy Holland
Against the Grain
Against the Grain transforms the canon of documenting gender transformation, breaks the script of the gender binary & the linear racial focus. Against the Grain follows the story of OluSeyi, a cultural organizer, artist, healer, & Queer Nigerian whose spirit is transcending gender. While documenting a gathered of gender non-conforming & transgender People of Color. People discuss what it means to be "us", engaging the complexities of our race/class/gender/ sexuality/ gender expression in this white supremacist/ patriarchal/ capitalist society. Directed by Seyi Adebanjo and Betty Yu
Tonight It's Me
CJ and Ash are an unlikely pair who randomly meet up for a sexual encounter but end up spending the whole night together playing a revealing game where both get more than they bargained for. Directed by Dominic Haxton
I Am the Transcender
This short film profiles human right's activist Bhumika Shrestha, Nepal's first transgender politician and member of the Nepali Congress. Directed by Nicola Desouza
"To Type Out Your Name" is part 9 of "Detours & Fences" an ongoing video series that traces trans identity, family legacies, and heartache through landscapes, collected objects, and punk rock. To grasp: to apprehend; to clench; to enclose; to fathom; to keep; to know; to perceive; to seize; to take hold of.
Directed by Malic Amalya
Heklina
We're shining a spotlight on a prolific member of San Francisco's creative arts scene.
Active as a performer since 1996, Heklina stages theater versions of film and sitcom re-enactments, while producing and hosting shows and events all over the world. From his early years in Iceland to his emergence as a premiere performer in the drag scene in San Francisco and beyond, we ask: What motivates Heklina to create? Directed by Brian Favorite
BEYOND THE MIRROR'S GAZE
A couple get to know each other by exchanging body parts at will. Canada. Directed by Iris Moore
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8th TranSex 9:30pm (+18)
Going Here
What if we could turn places of trauma into places of pleasure? What if we could close our eyes and dream, what if sound guided us through our fantasies? What if our heart beats were louder than halting stops, if we were open to love in scary places? In Going Here, Lyric and Jiz explore the edges of danger, public sex, experimentation, and lust. Featuring Jiz Lee and Lyric Seal. Directed by Courtney Trouble
PUT the NEEDLE on the RECORD
Remember that one person from high school so hot EVERYONE wanted to fuck them, but no one dare try? For these four friends that person was Samantha, and as they get high and spin vinyl, one of them claims to remember her just a bit better than the others. Terry lifts the narrative needle, but are they just looking to repeat a past track, or get into a new groove? A soft-core short film directed by Shine Louise Houston. Stars: Drew DeVeaux, Andre Shakti, Ex Libris, Nikki Darling, Dylan Ryan
CrashPad Behind the Scenes: Emma Claire & Golden Curlz
"Trans women bodies in porn are important." - Emma Claire, CrashPad
Part interview, part blooper reel, and part porn, this Behind the Scenes video features Emma Claire and Golden Curlz as they share the politics behind shooting for Pink & White Productions' San Francisco-based queer porn website, CrashPadSeries.com. Director: Shine Louise Houston
Funcle
Domino and Rain are genderqueer buddies who make their living performing hands-off fetish acts. When a client breaks the rules, the duo must decide how to handle their business. Director: Maria Breaux
Ziggy Montford and Ragged Dick or The Leather Daddy and the Bootblack
Actor and Director Ziggy Montford takes the viewer back to the day when Leather Men cruised the bath houses of San Francisco. While cruising, Leather Sir Ziggy finds Bootblack Ragged Dick and gets his boots serviced. Ragged Dick gets serviced in the process. Both actors are title holders and developed their scene from experience and fantasy. Another classic from T-Wood Pictures.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9th Afternoon Delight: Transgender Shorts Program 2:30pm
Transforming Family, directed by Rémy Huberdeau, tackles the current conversation among trans people about parenting, capturing the struggles and strengths of transgender and gender fluid parents to be.
Growing Old Gracefully: The Transgender Experience
This film explores the experiences of trans elders, providing wisdom on the ageing prcess. Directed by Joe Ippolito
Shirts vs. Skins
This film is the story of Dale Micheals, a transman living stealth until a game of basketball changes everything. Directed by Terésa DowellVest
Trucker Patti
The riveting life journey of an out transwoman truck driver as she drives across life's highways. Directed by Beau J. Genot
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9th Beyond Classifications 4pm
like rats leaving a sinking ship
Lyrically poignant yet contained this film is an intimate piece that combines personal subjectivity with the clinical objectivity of medical reports, challenging the very notions of these categories. The film is partly based on the author's psychiatric assessments diagnosing her with 'Gender Identity Disorder', in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases. A deep reflection on the too often abusive authority apparatuses such as state, law and psychiatry. Directed by vika kirchenbauer
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight: The Vicki Marlane Story
chronicles the remarkable experiences of drag superstar Vicki Marlane. From her roller skating and cross dressing youth, through the adventures that led to her being San Francisco's "Toast of the Town" in the early '70s. Produced by archivist and historian Kim Klausner (It's Elementary:Talking About Gay Issues In School) and Emmy Award-winning Susan Stryker (Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria). Directed by Michelle Lawler.
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LocationRoxie Theater (View)
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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