Interview: Docu-porn, transfeminism and cafe parties at London film fest

PinkNews.co.uk – By Staff Writer, Outside News Agency

The London Transgender Film Festival 2008 takes place in Brixton next month.

Three of the people involved in this groundbreaking event, festival director Col Cruise, director Kortney Ryan Ziegler and Ignacio Rivera, star of a “no script docu-porn,” spoke to MissTer Scratch, festival organiser.

Col Cruise, festival director.

Why did you decide to create a transgender film festival in the first place?

As a filmmaker I feel a strong need for more trans screen culture in London.