Andrea James

Out on Film brings comic Alec Mapa to Atlanta

Out on Film brings comic Alec Mapa to Atlanta

By Mike Fleming | Aug 14, 2014 Things are starting to heat up for Atlanta’s annual LGBT film festival. On Thursday, Out on Film announced that its Centerpiece screening will be the stand-up concert film “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” with…

Trans Women’s Wisdom in “Letters for My Sisters”

Trans Women’s Wisdom in “Letters for My Sisters”

Via Strange Fruit podcast: If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition or your younger pre-transition self, what would you say? That’s the question at the heart of a new book called “Letters for My Sisters: Transitional…

NewFest: ‘Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy’ director Andrea James on Changing Hearts and Minds Through Film

NewFest: ‘Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy’ director Andrea James on Changing Hearts and Minds Through Film

Posted by on July 27, 2014 in Interviews • NewFest On the importance of making a film based on Alec Mapa’s show… Alec Mapa had been performing this show live, and the run was nearing its end. I wanted to…

Film Society Lincoln Center reviews Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

Film Society Lincoln Center reviews Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

ALEC MAPA: BABY DADDY ANDREA JAMES, 2013 USA | FORMAT: BLU-RAY | 78 MINUTES New York Premiere Q&A with Andrea James and Alec Mapa In his hilarious new performance film, 2014 Outfest Fusion Achievement Award Winner and gifted comedian Alec…

Exclusive Excerpt From Transgender Anthology Letters for My Sisters

Exclusive Excerpt From Transgender Anthology Letters for My Sisters

  by Andrea James Posted: 07/25/2014 8:53 pm EDT We were particularly honored when trans pioneer Lynn Conway agreed to write the foreword. Lynn has done so much to help the community through her websites and mentoring, and she’s a living link…

Trans In The Mainstream: The State of Trans Representation and Why 'Transamerica' Remains So Important

Trans In The Mainstream: The State of Trans Representation and Why 'Transamerica' Remains So Important

By Dominic Clarke | /Bent July 22, 2014 “Transamerica” is nearly ten years old but it is a film that was so far ahead of its time in the treatment of transgender characters that the film world still hasn’t caught…

NPR: Trans Bodies, Trans Selves': A Modern Manual By And For Trans People

NPR: Trans Bodies, Trans Selves': A Modern Manual By And For Trans People

The new book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a collection of essays describing the varied experiences of transgender people — and the social, political and medical issues they face. It’s written by and for transgender and gender-nonconforming people. The idea was inspired…

Trans Women Share Wisdom 'By Us, For Us'

Trans Women Share Wisdom 'By Us, For Us'

by Mitch Kellaway JULY 16 2014 “If you could write just one letter to someone who is beginning their gender transition or to your younger, pre-transition self, what would you say?” A new anthology, Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom…

Review: Living Things (Eric Shapiro, 2014)

Review: Living Things (Eric Shapiro, 2014)

by Mat Viola June 12, 2014 Living Things consists of a dinner-table debate between a vegan and a meat-eater. That’s it: just two people sitting down to dinner and debating the morality of eating animals. Never having been a fan…

Hawaii premiere: Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival

Hawaii premiere: Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival

At our film’s Hawaii premiere with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie. Photo courtesy @boysurfer on Twitter. — with Alec Mapa and Jamie Hebert at Honolulu Museum of Art.