March 4, 2015
Among the new series are “White Guy Talk Show,” and DJ Skee’s “Skee TV.” Plus, stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias is getting his own scripted effort, Wilmer Valderrama has a new dance competition series, and Fuse Media execs singled out transgender project “Transcendent” as one to keep an eye out for.
https://www.thewrap.com/fuse-media-nuvotv-fm-transcendent-gabriel-iglesias-wilmer-valderrama-big-freedia-queen-of-bounce/
By Rose Moore
Finally, while she may prefer to be behind the camera, I would love to see Andrea James involved in this movie. She is an accomplished scriptwriter and producer, as well as an activist for LGBT rights. She would be the perfect person to help Redmayne understand and truly get inside the experience of being Einer.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2736775?lt_source=external,manual
BY DANIEL REYNOLDS
FEBRUARY 25 2015
James, who was also present at the Outfest event, said the issue of casting a trans actor is not so cut and dry as people make it out to be.
“There are business realities that force the industry to make certain kinds of decisions that aren’t necessarily in our best interest as a community,” she told The Advocate. “I understand from both sides of it. As a producer, I see why you want to get the best, and biggest, and most experienced person you can for a film, especially if you’ve worked on it for years and years and have investors who you want to pay back. But on the other hand, the other part of me wishes that there were more kinds of those opportunities for trans actors.”
“It’s complicated,” she continued. “It’s not as easy as people outside the industry want to think it is. In a perfect world, we would have trans actors playing those roles, but we don’t live in that world, and there are a lot of us working hard to try and change that. But it’s going to take time, just like it did with gay and lesbian actors. We’re about 30 years behind them.”
By Interrobang Staff on February 25, 2015
Showtime will also premiere a special from the self proclaimed “America’s Gaysian Sweetheart”,Alec Mapa sometime this spring, (no date set yet) with Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy.
http://theinterrobang.com/new-jay-mohr-special-coming-showtime-andrew-dice-clay-showcase-blue-comics/
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 films that you’ve never heard of, but you urge people to see it despite the fact that they probably won’t. This one came inside the mailer of a more high-profile film that I didn’t care for. Tucked away in a white envelope I’d never heard of it, or the director, or any of the actors, but the simplicity of its idea was breathtaking. Running just over an hour, the movie is an exhausting experience with no car chases, no gun battles and no cacophony. It is constructed entirely out of words and contains only two actors, seated at a dinner table debating each other. They are at opposite ends of the political and social spectrum and find themselves in a heated ethical debate that gets more and more heated and we are engrossed at every single minute. We meet Rhona, a pretty 29 year-old woman who prides herself on her left-wing mindset. Her demeanor seems ruled by new age philosophy and vegan logic. She is preparing dinner for her boyfriend and his father. The boyfriend’s father arrives early. He is Leo, a veteran who is a conservative and a devoted meat eater. Their conversation begins on tenter hooks and steamrolls into a debate about ethics, plants, meat, war and anything else that they can throw at each other. Their argument is heated and never forced. Words fly like bullets and each combatant is ready with an intellectual response. Debate becomes argument. Arguments turn to a confessional and the two find themselves laying all their ill feelings for each other on the table. They argue over animal cruelty, climate change, health, morality, and spirituality. Rhona is an idealist whose point of view comes from books and education. Leo is more practical, he’s a man who has seen the real world on the battlefield and off. When it is over you are exhausted. Shapiro opens the doors of intellectual debate and lets the issues fly.
http://armchaircinema.com/the-best-films-of-2014/
“Becoming ‘TRANSPARENT’”
The WGA’s LGBT WRITERS COMMITTEE (Los Angeles) presents a panel event with the creators and staff of Amazon Studios’ hit TV series “Transparent.”
Monday, 2/23, 7:00 p.m. – WGAW 2nd Floor Multi-Purpose Room, Los Angeles.
RSVP: diversity@wga.org with “Transparent” in subject line. Info: (323) 782-4589.
Take a look inside the Golden Globe-winning, WGA and DGA-Award-nominated Amazon Studios’ series about a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that their father is transgender.
Panelists will include:
Writer/director/activist Andrea James will moderate.
The pilot episode of “Transparent” will be screened at 7:00pm, followed by the panel at 7:30pm. A dessert reception will close the evening.
DECEMBER 24 2014
It has been a stellar year for cinematic storytelling of the LGBT community. This year’s best documentaries feature a variety of fascinating subjects, including Prop. 8 plaintiffs, gay dads, a bank robber, gender outlaws, and an Olympian. See The Advocate’s top 10 picks below.
Twitter is the most important platform ever created, so you can imagine my delight at winning a WOWIE for best Twitter!
Written by Katelyn Hensel • December 10, 2014
Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect is a gesture of hope and support from trans women, showing how their own experiences with transitioning shaped their lives for the better or worse. It is the goal of this book and its authors (and I think they succeeded wonderfully!) to guide future generations of trans women through the process by giving fun (or scary) anecdotal advice and reassurances about the future.
http://actsofgreatness.org/blog/must-reads-for-lgbtq-youth-letters-for-my-sisters/
November 6, 2014
Letters For My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom In Retrospect is a groundbreaking anthology from Transgress Press that features intimate letters written by 35 trans women to their past selves or other trans women. The letters include advice, reassurances, warnings and wisdom, resulting in a collection of revealing stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women.
http://www.trans-health.com/2014/letters-for-my-sisters/
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