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10 great transgender films

10 great transgender films

Find out what made it onto our list of 10 of the best movies about transgender people. Juliet Jacques Updated: 30 March 2015 Transamerica (2005) Director Duncan Tucker Unlike Wild Side, Duncan Tucker’s film did not employ a trans woman as…

Living Things named a top film of 2014

Living Things named a top film of 2014

THE BEST FILMS OF 2014 Jerry Roberts | February 15, 2015 10. Living Things Eric Shapiro’s tiny independent treasure is one of those great unheralded experiences that critics happen upon in a pile of DVD screeners. It’s one of those…

Flick picks: Reviews of films at the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Flick picks: Reviews of films at the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

By DAVID WARNER, TIFFANY RAZZANO, JULIE GARISTO and DEVON CRUMPACKER Oct 9, 2014 Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy It’s rare that a film can successfully combine raunchy sex jokes with heartfelt stories of love and compassion, but Alec Mapa does just…

Review: Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

Review: Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

by Obed Medina Contributor Monday Sep 29, 2014 When Alec Mapa takes the stage, all bets are off. This isn’t a sanitized exploration of the human condition with funny anecdotes. Not at all. This is a show where nothing is off…

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…

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…

Frameline 38 LGBT Film Festival—“Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy,” “Cupcakes,” “Appropriate Behavior,” And “Crazy Bitches”

Frameline 38 LGBT Film Festival—“Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy,” “Cupcakes,” “Appropriate Behavior,” And “Crazy Bitches”

by Peter Wong on June 25, 2014 Andrea James may have structured her documentary “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” as a faux day-in-the-life of America’s “gaysian sweetheart” and his family.  There is a waffle disaster that costs a few cool gay…

The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers

The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers

BY ADVOCATE.COM EDITORS JUNE 23 2014 37. Transamerica (2005): This award-winning film, starring Felicity Huffman in an Oscar-nominated performance as transgender woman Bree, admittedly doesn’t get everything right when it comes to portraying a fully developed trans character on the…

‘Living Things’: Rental Review

‘Living Things’: Rental Review

VeggieFans Laurie Fanelli June 13, 2014 Writer/director Eric Shapiro takes a deep look at the complicated emotions that surround the way people eat with Living Things. Through the setting of what should be a nice family dinner, Shapiro reveals the…

Rebecca Root on trans voice and my coaching

Rebecca Root on trans voice and my coaching

Rebecca Root mentioned Finding Your Female Voice in an article in Voice and Speech Review, published online today. There and Back Again? Or, Adventures in Genderland: an investigation into the nature of transsexual voice, its presentation in performance, and the…