International Film Festival of Ottawa

No Ordinary Man (with Still Processing)

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No Ordinary Man (Feature Film): No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivalled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honour the legacy of an unlikely hero.


Still Processing (Short Film): A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.


About the Pairing:

Both films subvert expectations of documentary narratives while at the same time taking very different approaches to exploring the ways in which the story, and legacy, of a person’s life can have a lasting impact, even long after they’re gone.


While No Ordinary Man does so through the lens of “recreating” the undocumented moments from Billy Tipton’s life, Still Processing does almost the opposite, as the filmmaker herself confronts her own personal experiences of loss and grief as she sees photographs capturing the moments and memories leading up to her family’s trauma for the first time.


- Devin Hartley

No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    80 minutes
  • Language
    English, (French Subtitles)
  • Country
    Canada
  • Director
    Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
  • Screenwriter
    Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac
  • Producer
    Sarah Spring
  • Cast
    Stephan Pennington, Billy Tipton, Hennessy Winkler
  • Cinematographer
    Léna Mill-Reuillard
  • Editor
    Aisling Chin-Yee
  • Sound Design
    Marie-Pierre Grenier