Fri 7/11/08, Opening Night Films and AFTERPARTY!!……… click here for ticket prices
- FRIDAY 7th November ‘08
- Duration 85min
- Cinema 2 (wheelchair accessible)
- Opening night tickets: £7/10 incl……AFTERPARTY!!!!
Doors open 7 for 7.20 start. - all other sessions: £6.50/4.50
- OFFER:Buy 4 get 1 free
(this offer does not include opening night ticket)
OPENING NIGHT FILMS AND AFTERPARTY!!!
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- Feature: THE BELIEVERS
USA, 2007. Dir: Todd Holland. 77minsFrom the voices you least expect comes a message of redemption and hope. THE BELIEVERS is the story of the world’s first transgender gospel choir- their struggle for social change and the fight for recognition in the world of organised religion. Built around intimately told personal stories, the film portrays a group of people who are in tune with the universe. They challenge the catholic church and make changes to a social structure that nobody imagined possible. This film is about moving mountains. A really uplifting piece of Trans filmmaking and a pleasure for all ears. view full program & details »
sat 8/11/08, 5 – 6.15pm - shorts program 1
Session 1: shorts program one:
Playing With Gender, What I Am, Somewhere In Between, Dive, Thorn In Your Side, One In 2000, Two-Spirited People
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 5 – 6.15pm Duration 75min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
GENDER FLUID FRAMES: This is a program where the film makers re-image gender roles and question, with playful spirits, the conciousness of fluid identities in between the binary. The makers of these films have expressed their vision beyond any doubt that we all have a variety of perspectives, and we are all individuals within a colourful spectrum. A great program never to transform like this again. Not to be missed!
- Playing With Gender
USA 2007. Dir:Ashly Altadonna. 7minYoung 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.
sat 8/11/08, 6.35- 7.55pm - feature
Session 2: feature program:
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 6.35- 7.55pm Duration 77min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
- Feature: STILL BLACK
USA 2008. Dir: Kortney Ryan Ziegler. 77min UK Premiere
In the past decade, independent cinema has seen an explosion of films that explore transgender issues. Many of those films, however, have elided issues of race in regard to trans communities of colour. In light of this, still black: a portrait of black transmen is a feature-length experimental documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate discussions of thier lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers and teachers, the film challenges traditional notions of black masculinity, sexuality and identity. view full program & details »
sat 8/11/08, 8.15- 9.40pm - shorts program 2
Session 3: shorts program two
Are You A Girl Or What?, Fagette, The Missing Colour, Envisioning Justice
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 8.15- 9.40pm Duration 85min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE: From Africa and India to the Astroturf wonderland in USA. From the funniest and the queerest to the spiritual and the important. Documentary, music video, Fiction. Activism, drag, lesbian men and artists. These shorts are sure to excite, educate and entertain.
- Are You A Girl Or What?
AFRICA 2007. Dir : Mathilda Piehl. 30mins
In a backyard in the township of Katlehong a group of young lesbian guys let us ask questions about their lives and how they survive in a sexist, homophobic and often violent surrounding. Through adversities and hardship these young South Africans bear an immense amount of hope and courage. view full program & details »
sat 8/11/08, 10.00- 11.20pm - short & feature
Session 4: short & feature
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 10.00- 11.20pm Duration 80min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
(R rated) These films contain scenes of sexual nature. 18yrs and over only
- Trans Entities – The Nasty Love Of Papi and Wil
USA 2007. Dir: Morty Diamond. 55 minADULTS ONLY – 18yrs and over only.Papi and Wil are a perverted, loving, polyamorous couple who identify as trans entities. A word they have coined to describe their gender identity. The three sex scenes in this movie, including one with a third person, were shot completely undirected, allowing the viewer an engagingly raw look into their uninhinited exploration of role playing, BDSM and lots of hot fucking. You have been warned!
sun 9/11/08, 12 – 4pm - B3 MEDIA PROGRAM - FREE!
B3 Media: 12- 4pm
- SUNDAY 8th November ‘08
- 12 – 5pm
- B3 Media
Just around the corner from the Ritzy cinema. RSVP not necessary, just turn up but come early to avoid disappointment as space is limited!
B3 Media, Electric Avenue Studios, 3b Electric Avenue, London, SW9 8JY - FREE !!!
- This venue is not wheelchair accessible
! Please Note that on Sun there are no Victoria line trains going to Brixton so Stockwell (Northern Line) will be the nearest tube. You can hop on a 15 min bus ride right to the venue from there or make alternative travel plans. Go to Festival info for exact travel details!
Film& Panel Discussion: 12 – 1.30pm
Films:
- Being Lisa
USA 2007. Dir: Amara Stefani, Becca Louisell, Steven Bourasa, Gene Hoisington. 10minsA business dinner turns romantic when Lisa and Jason meet. Jason seizes the opportunity and asks her out on a date. When she reveals she is transgender, Jason has to figure out if he’s really ready to take a chance on love. view full program & details »
sun 9/11/08, 5 – 6.15pm - feature
Back to…..RITZY CINEMA
Session 5: feature program
- SUNDAY 9th November ‘08
- 5 – 9pm Duration 75min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
- Feature: L’ORDRE DES MOTS/BINDING WORDS
FRANCE 2007. Self-produced by Cynthia Arra and Melissa Arra. 75minFar from the usual treatment of Trans issues, this film, through the choice of its portrait subjects – all contemporary actors and precursors of the Trans’and Intersex movement in France – addresses the gender identity issues head-on by questioning our often unchallenged societal norms and analyzing the nature of the oppression and repression faced by the Trans’ and Intersex community. view full program & details »
sun 9/11/08, 6.25 – 7.15pm - shorts program 3
Session 6: shorts program three
Felicia, Man From Venus, Junk Box Warrior, Stepping Out, New York Story, Lonely At The Top, Swim Suit
- SUNDAY 9th November ‘08
- 6.25 – 7.15pm Duration 50min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
TRANSGENDER…IS? Get a glimpse of trans individuality captured beautifully in these expressive short films. Watch the scratchy ‘mad’ rantings of what it means to be trans from the ‘Man From Venus’. ‘Felicia’ tells us what it is like growing old as a trans woman with HIV. In ‘lonely at the top’ we meet a trans singer on and off stage and in their wonderful home. We hear from Calvin, a trans guy, about his swimming career in an all woman’s team in ‘Swimsuit’. We view an exploration of transition from a different perspective in Stepping Out and Junk box warrior as well as transformation through fetish in a visually sublime ‘New York Story’.
- Felicia
USA 2008. Dir:Tim O’Hara. 8minLike many single seniors, Felicia Elizondo faces the reality of aging alone. Felicia’s limited income has left her with little more than what she plans to use toward her burial. Despite the future unknown, Felicia remains positive by connecting with others who are in similar positions. view full program & details »
sun 9/11/08, 7.25 – 9pm - Feature - Closing Night Film
Session 7: Closing Night
- SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
- 7.25 – 9pm Duration 97min
- Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
- Tickets: £6.50/4.50
- Feature: TRAINED IN THE WAYS OF MEN
USA 2007. Dir: Shelly Prevost. 97minAt a party one night a brutal murder occurred when it was discovered that the cute young girl everyone was attracted too was anatomically male. This film tells the story of one families struggle and their never ending love that brought them all together to see justice done for Gwen, 17 years of age, who never had a chance, yet her spirit has touched the lives of people forever. Every year in November we have a day of rememberence so we don’t forget the lives of so many trans people who have been lost tragically to transphobic crimes of violence. We close this festival in honour of Gwen Araujo and we thank Shelly Prevost for making such an important and brave film that will help dispel ignorance in this world.
www.reelfreedom.com view full program & details »
EXHIBITIONS
INSTALLATION & PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
- SUNDAY 8th November ‘08
- RITZY
Installation on screen in downstairs cafe - FREE
- Relinquary 2 - Simon Croft (2008)
Relinquary 2 Uses the Image of a house to represent the body as a home, a vehicle to express identity and a site subject to a social expectation and judgement. It documents a process of ‘constructive destruction’ where the paremeters of the process are known but the outcome is uncertain. In doing so, It reflects on the nature of physical and personal change
PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Sam Nightingale - London (2008)
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Sam Nightingale is a photographic artist based in London. Sam is occupied with visualising the urban, the banal and the everyday through the medium of photography.The work that he will show during the festival will question what it means to have a ‘trans-eye’ and how this relates to representation. In particular looking at space and place: both in terms of the space represented within the image frame and context created by way of the work being situated within a transgendered film festival. 
Debra Kate is an international performer, photographer and trans activist based out of Berlin, Germany. This selection of photos is taken from a larger documentation of drag and gender expression performance cultures, and those who are involved; both on stage and off. Debra Kate’s photographs have been published in the first German language drag king book, “Drag Kings: Mit Bartkleber gegen das Patriarchat” (Querverlag, 2007), and most recently, Debra Kate was the keynote speaker for the 10th anniversary of the International Drag King Community Extravaganza in Columbus, Ohio, USA. www.debrakate.com for more details- Andie Barlow is exhibiting an installation ‘Cleaning Fairy’ which is inspired by Drag Queens. She is interested in glamour in an exaggerated form and the sometimes humourous and ridiculous way this is represented in old fashioned advertising, relating to ideal imagery of being a fully competent housewife in daily chores, whilst looking like a goddess. In this piece the drag queen’s exaggerated glamour and the ‘old fashioned ideal woman’ are connected.