Tag: trans
Check It
Literally just a stone’s throw from the corridors of power in our nation’s capital, lies a whole area of Washington that is completely alien territory to most Americans. Seeing it portrayed in this startling powerful new documentary, you find that you have to pinch yourself to remember what is being played out here is not some…
One of Jesus’s Homegirls Wins Miss Trans Israel Pageant
The toughest part (!) of my ‘other’ day job as a Media Reporter for PTV is pronouncing un-familiar names so I’m kind of happy that it’s my ‘day off’ today and I will not be having to tell the world the latest news from HaBima, Israel’s national theater, in Tel Aviv. Yesterday Ta’alin Abu Hanna, 21, an Israeli…
Dawn
In his 4th short movie the multi-talented British trans-filmmaker Jake Graf once again plays with our expectations in this delightful wee drama that he fills with surprises. When two rather lonely total strangers meet at an isolated bus-stop in the dark hours of early morning and strike up a conversation, they both gently reveal their unhappiness…
Deconstructing Zoe
This new documentary having its World Premiere at Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival sets about exploring the rather blurred lines of gender and sexuality of a rather extraordinary London based Malayan Chinese actor/producer called Chowee Leow aka Zoe who is a self-professed gender-illusionist. Initially listening to interviews with Lee and friends was somewhat confusingly as no-one…
Finding Phong
This documentary is the story of Phong a 20-something-year-old Vietnamese transwoman as she goes about realigning her body to finally becoming the woman she has always rightly felt she was. The youngest of six siblings, Phong could never identify the source of her deep childhood depression until she left her small village home to go to…
