Please also feel free to contact us with any queries

Fantastic party last night!! Thankyou to all that came to support the festival…So Door sales now are on!!.. and for  all other sessions over the weekend. Otherwise online bookings at the Ritzy website are working now.…u can also book by phone….0871704 2065..

Please note for Sunday session at B3 Media. The times for Transfeminism panel is 12 - 1.30pm. then a break and FYI radio(queer online radio) from 1.30 - 2.30..the Butching the Trans- Where Have All The Butches Gone…2.30 - 4pm…so come to all..it’s going to be a really interesting event!…c u there…..Col

I don’t live in London so can’t offer to put anyone up for the festival weekend. But I have started a transgendered group on http://www.couchsurfing.com. Basically, the couch surfing community offer a bed to fellow travellers, but no money is involved. I just thought that by starting a group for transgendered folk it could really benefit trans people as a whole.

Hope this helps and good luck with the festival.

col
festival director/programmer

OPENING NIGHT FILMS AND AFTERPARTY!!!
Bookings now open, please call: 0871 704 2065
Online bookings at Ritzy website! see link

1. 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.
2. Short: I’m Not A BoyUSA 2005. Dir: Julie Joyce, Johnny Khan, Matthew Khan. 6minJulie Joyce is not a boy. She is more than an intense, fast talking New York city 16yr old. She’s trans-gendered youth who wants what all young people want- to be heard and to have a positive space to live and grow

Then….9pm-12AM - PARTY PARTY PARTY!!! At Ritzy, Café/Bar upstairs. A chance to meet the community!
Hosted by Katsby; Performances by D’Artagnan And The Three MuscleQueers, Jerusalem Kings and Stav B; DJ Miss B,  Exhibition by Debra kate, Food served until 10pm…plus other treats for you!

• 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!

1. 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.

2. What I Am
   IRELAND 2008. Dir: Fiona Hynes. 9min‘What I Am’ portrays one persons struggle to find an identity outside of the ‘norm’. In a society ruled by labels, Cat McIlroy fights the gender stereotypes forced upon her from a young age. ‘What I Am’ opens a window on to issues of gender, identity and the lengths people will go to in order to feel happy about themselves.
3. Somewhere In Between
   USA 2005. Dir: Gina Pei Chi. 3minSomewhere In Between traces the formation of an Asian girl’s androgynous identity through documenting real life images with first person voice over narration. While the images are showing various public places like churches, playgrounds, washrooms, and clothing stores, the audio is revealing the girl’s experience as being gender bended and her deep concern about the social construction of binary gender roles.
4. Dive
   FRANCE 2007. Dir: Opie Boero Imwinkelried. 3minI look at myself. In Dive, I subject my body to constant transformations and deformations evoking some type of monstrosity at first. But as my body keeps endlessly twirling through the tunnel, the idea of monstrosity becomes irrelevant, and the body-tunnel turns into a medium to reach something beyond it.
5. Thorn In Your Side
   USA 2007/8. Dir: Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson.  5minsThe San Francisco Trans March is both a protest against the violence and discrimination faced by the trans community and a celebration of their strength and spirit. We asked everybody at the march “How do you define your gender?” You may be surprised at the variety of answers. In memory of Gwen Araujo, Ruby Ordenana, Tony “Delicious” Green, Michelle Eddie Lee, Tyra Hunter and all those whose lives are threatened by homophobia and transphobia.
6. One In 2000
   USA 2006. Dir: Ajae Clearway. 27min‘One in 2000′ explores intersex lives from a variety of perspectives and diverse voices. It reaches beyond the issues of gender and medical treatment to connect with a wider audience on the topics of family, school, and relationships. This moment in time is an historical crossroads in which doctors around the world are beginning to treat intersex not as a social emergency, but as the complex condition that it is.
7. Two-Spirited People
   USA 1991. Dir. Michel Beauchemin, Lori Levy & Gretchen Vogel. 20minAn overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation. This documentary explores the berdache tradition in Native American culture, in which individuals who embody feminine and masculine qualities act as a conduit between the physical and spiritual world, and because of this are placed in positions of power within the community.

• SATURDAY 8th November ‘08
• 6.35- 7.55pm Duration 77min
• Cinema 5 (wheelchair accessible)
  
• Tickets: £6.50/4.50

1. 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.

• 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.

1. 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.
2. Fagette
   USA 2008. Dir: Ali Cotterill. 4min. music video
   Fagette is a trans-fabulous Sunday in the park. It’s croquet gone gay, drag-tastic cheerleaders, and synchronized dance, all in an Astroturf wonderland.
3. The Missing Colour
   INDIA 2008 Dir: Prasanth Kanathur. 24minA journey into the world of a transgender, who lived for colours, her only love.  Though strangers always stole the colours of her life, she kept her first love by working with paint and brush to convert her thoughts to colourful images.  Rejected by family, dejected over the society around her, she tries to keep her love alive.  But how long can she hang on to her love for colours?
4. Envisioning Justice
   USA 2007. Dir:Larry Tung. 32minThis documentary is about the life and work of Pauline Park.  As an orphan born in Korea in a year of revolution, Pauline Park was adopted and raised in the Midwest.  Park. She came out as an openly transgendered woman after moving to New York City in 1997. In June 1998, Park co-founded the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in New York.