French filmmaker Stéphanie Lamorré’s heart-touching documentary on teenage Sherenté Mishitashin is another very welcome contribution to the burgeoning dialogue about the transgender community. Sherenté is a gender-queer Two-Sprit teenager and a member of the Narragansett Tribal Nation in Rhode Island and this is their story. Lamorré’s very discreet camera captures a very determined and … Continue reading
In 1979 composer Stephen Sondheim’s legendary partnership with director Hal Prince was on a real role. The two had very successfully collaborated on the Broadway productions of Company , Follies ,A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures and now Sweeney Todd which won them a total of 8 Tony Awards. Empowered by this success Sondheim, … Continue reading
Approaching his 60th birthday after having just come through a life threatening illness, Chris Muth a Professor of Management at a High School of Engineering in Geneva decides it’s time for a change. However he’s not thinking about a conventional retirement to a cottage by the sea, or even taking a World Cruise like other senior citizens, … Continue reading
In 2004 Executive Producer Bruce Hensel and his team made two documentaries called The Opposite Sex which were both screened on the Showtime Channel. Each film was a different story of two very different people who were in the throes of transitioning, both of whom had the added struggle of being part of conservative redneck families. Rene … Continue reading
Growing up in an English Orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s there was always black and bi-racial children in my ‘family’ who were also my good friends. However, when I came out as gay in the 1970s in London I had somehow been adopted by a new group of friends who were primarily. It … Continue reading
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