Thank you Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs for the wonderful screening AND a Festival Favorite award!
Trans women pen essays that explore transition
Elliot Owen
Published 09/25/2014
In celebration of this year’s release of Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect, a book featuring the writing of 35 trans women from across the globe, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center will be holding a reading this weekend.
The publication’s co-editors, well-known media producer and writer Andrea James and Deanne Thornton, will be speaking along with two of the book’s Bay Area-based contributors, Gina White and Mazikeen Wagner.
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=70045
Chicago Pride: Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
Andrea James (US, 2013, 78 min)
Actor and comedian Alec Mapa (UGLY BETTY, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) shares hilarious and heartfelt stories about how his life has changed since he and his husband adopted a five year old through the foster care system. No topic is off limits in this raunchy yet moving film of his award-winning one-man show: hosting gay porn award shows, a midlife crisis, musical theatre, reality television, bodily functions, married sex life, stage moms vs. baseball dads, and the joys, challenges, and unexpected surprises of fatherhood. ALEC MAPA: BABY DADDY includes behind-the-scenes footage of his family’s home life on a busy show day, which gives special insight into the tender truth behind many of his hilarious jokes.
Q&A w/ Andrea James (director) & Alec Mapa to follow screening
Reeling Film Festival overview
Richard Knight, Jr.
2014-09-14
Well-known out comic actor Alec Mapa ( Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives ) and director Andrea James will be on hand for a screening of the documentary Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy on Friday, Sept. 19, at 9:30 p.m. that focuses on the changes that came about after Mapa and his partner adopted a 5-year-old.
Alec Mapa: For The Love Of Zion
by 
Mickey Weems | Tuesday, August 26, 2014
“Daddy and Papa”: this is how one 9-year-old boy knows Alec Mapa and his husband Jamie Hebert. Mapa is âDaddy,â a title that the flamboyant actor says no other person besides his son can say to him with a straight face. A seasoned veteran of television in shows such as Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and Heartland, Mapa stars in Baby Daddy, a film that features his one-man show covering various topics such as hosting gay porn awards and becoming a father.
Hosting porn awards is great comic material. But fantasies of the hard-on are secondary to realities of the heart. Mapa shines when he talks about what he and Hebert went through to bring their son Zion home, and bring him home for good.
Gay comic Alec Mapa and his âBaby Daddyâ coming to ATLâs Out on Film
Out on Film scores another major coup with the screening of âAlec Mapa: Baby Daddyâ with the star himself attending the viewing.
The announcement of Mapaâs appearance with director Andrea James at Out on Film comes just days after the LGBT film fest announced its opening night film will be âBlackbirdâ directed by Patrick-Ian Polk and starring Oscar winner MoâNique.
âWe are very excited to screen this film and have Alec and Andrea down,â says Jim Farmer, festival director of Out On Film, in a prepared statement. âItâs a very funny, topical and eventually heart-warming film. Alec is one of the funniest people around and we canât wait to host him.â
Mapa, an actor, comedian and writer, is also excited to be coming back to Atlanta.
âI am beyond thrilled that our film âAlec Mapa: Baby Daddyâ is an official entry in Out on Film,â says Mapa in a press release. âAtlanta is one of my favorite cities on the planet. Southern hospitality, great food and the hottest guysâwhat better place to share our filmâs message of love, laughter  and equality? Itâs gonna be a hootenanny of epic proportion. I canât wait.â
Out on Film brings comic Alec Mapa to Atlanta
By Mike Fleming | Aug 14, 2014
Things are starting to heat up for Atlantaâs annual LGBT film festival. On Thursday, Out on Film announced that its Centerpiece screening will be the stand-up concert film âAlec Mapa: Baby Daddyâ with the gay actor-comedian in tow.
âWe are very excited to screen this film and have Alec and Andrea down,â OOF Director Jim Farmer says in the announcement. âItâs a very funny, topical and eventually heart-warming film. Alec is one of the funniest people around and we canât wait to host him.â
Trans Womenâs Wisdom in âLetters for My Sistersâ
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?
Thatâs the question at the heart of a new book called âLetters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect.â This week we spoke with the bookâs editors, Andrea James and Deanne Thornton, about the wisdom assembled in the bookâand asked them to share their own advice for their pre-transition sisters.
Andrea, who created the groundbreaking website Transsexual Roadmap in 1996, said we all go through transitions all the time. âEvery day weâre on a journey,â she said. âWeâre always in transition and weâre always traveling. Itâs important to take a moment each day and really appreciate all the wonderful things that are going on around you.â
Deanne Thornton said the honesty in some of the letters is in line with some of the trans women who have guided her along her own path. âEvery trans woman Iâve met on my journey was perfectly willing to be open and share about it,â she said. âThey didnât feel that it was s secret they needed to keep. It was something they were happy to share with others.â
You can find the book (and lots of other trans-related titles) at Transgress Press, and keep up with the editors on twitter at @jokestress and@deannerene.
http://strangefruitpod.org/trans-womens-wisdom-in-letters-for-my-sisters-its-complicated-between-black-women-and-gay-men/
NewFest: âAlec Mapa: Baby Daddyâ 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 record it for posterity because it not only feels timely but I also believe it might convince other families, especially LGBT families, to consider adoption. We’ve been working with RaiseAChild.USÂ to encourage more LGBT families to consider fostering and adoption to answer the needs of the 400,000 children in our nation’s foster care system. This film seemed like a great way to expand those efforts.
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 Mapa (Switched at Birth)âaccompanied by his familyâtakes his audience on a roller-coaster ride through the challenges and occasional triumphs of becoming a daddy. Youâll laugh and even cry as âAmericaâs Gaysian Sweetheartâ mixes life stories with his signature brand of sass. Contains adult language and catastrophic waffles.
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