Taking the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature was “Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps,” a film of transgender icon Scott Turner Schofield’s long-running performance art piece embodying the experience of becoming a man, taken from 127 total stories…
My friend and mentor Lynn Conway died on June 9. This is a tremendous loss for me personally, for the transgender community, for science, and for humanity. Lynn overcame profound anti-transgender discrimination to become one of history’s greatest scientists. After…
Join me for a special Trans Day of Visibility event at Wabash College. We are screening Whirlybird Thursday, March 31 at 7pm in Baxter 101. See you there!
November 17, 2021 at 5:00 PM Pacific DEADLINE FOR THE LOVE OF DOCS A VIRTUAL DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING SERIES Presented by NatGeo Soaring above the chaotic spectacle of ’80s and ’90s Los Angeles, a young couple revolutionized breaking news with…
The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival is having a special encore screening of the episodic version of our experimental media project Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps. 2020: PILOT SEASON Playing in this program:UnemployableMagic HourPretty PeopleDeceased OnesBecoming a Man in…
In 2021, the United States Library of Congress selected my life’s work for inclusion in their collection. Via the Library of Congress: The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the Library’s historic collection of…
Euan Ferguson Sun 21 Feb 2021 04.30 EST As a simple tale of adrenaline, Whirlybird: Live Above LA made a fascinating enough Storyville: breaking news in its infancy, with fast-to-screen video a major new player, and he and wife Marika in the air, literally…
By STEPHANIE LINNING PUBLISHED: 08:50 EST, 16 February 2021 Storyville documentary Whirlybird: Live Above LA, which aired on BBC Four last night, reveals how Tur and Gerrard became a two-man helicopter news team in the 1980s, finding success with live coverage of…
February 16, 2021 6:42am By Tom Grater International Film Reporter @tomsmovies Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Whirlybird from A&E IndieFilms. The doc, which premiered at last year’s Sundance, is the feature debut of Matt Yoka. It follows a husband-and-wife news helicopter team…
Lucy Mangan @LucyMangan Mon 15 Feb 2021 17.30 EST Whirlybird: Live Above LA (BBC Four) sets out to be many things. It is a documentary about the evolution – brought about largely by one married couple, Bob Tur and Marika Gerrard-Tur…