HuffingtonPost.com – Kate Bornstein
I know that the film Transamerica was a big breakthrough for tranny visibility in the USA. But believe it or not, there’s more to transgender than director Duncan Tucker and evening soap star Felicity Huffman can bring to the silver screen. In fact, there are movies being made all around the world that cast real live trannies in the tranny roles.
There are documentaries that get made about people who take gender exploration a hell of a lot further than man-becomes-woman or woman-becomes-man. Many of today’s radical tranny films never make it to your local Cineplex, but they’re out there. I’d love to give you a single link that would open for you the treasure trove of films about radical gender transgression, but no one’s put a list together yet. You’re gonna hafta google them for yourself, but I promise it’ll be a fun search.
Or, if you’re lucky, you live near a city that holds a transgender film festival. Don’t worry if you’re not in one of those cities. I live in New York, and there’s not one here. San Francisco has one, though: Tranny Fest. And Seattle has the 2nd Annual Translations tranny film festival, this coming Labor Day weekend. You could still make your travel plans, and Seattle’s gorgeous in the summer. You just missed London’s Transfabulous this past June. But fret not. I’m gonna write about that next week.