When London-based queer filmmaker Joseph Wilson came out of a San Francisco Club late one summer’s night last year, he spotted a rather larger-than-life blonde sitting in her cadillac and waving a torchlight around checking the crowd out.  He was immediately drawn to her and struck up a conversation with Miss Shannon Pat a 66-year-old Californian transgender woman.

She invited Wilson  to her home the following day and in her eccentric character’s ramshackle $2-million home in Oakland Heights, San Francisco he shot this intriguing documentary on this extraordinary woman.  Watching it one can easily tell why Wilson was so fascinated with her.  The movie premiered at Queer Show and Tell, a festival in London’s East End celebrating LGBT art, film and theatre.