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Outcasts and Iconoclasts: The New Trans Cinema

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This panel represents an inflection point in the history of trans cinema. Between Outfest Fusion and Outfest Los Angeles, Outfest’s programs this year feature an extraordinary array of films by TNBI filmmakers that are aesthetically daring, that consciously engage with our community’s past to chart a new course for the future, and that understand that the current climate necessitates rethinking what it means to be a “trans film" and what it means to be a filmmaker of trans experience. Just as the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival bound and defined the New Queer Cinema movement when our community was in a time of crisis, so too do we want to mark this moment for the TNBI filmmakers and community standing defiant in a time of uncertainty, fear, and violence. The panel features Aitch Alberto (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe), Alice Maio Mackay (T Blockers), and Georden West (Playland), Sav Rodgers (Chasing Chasing Amy), Tre’vell Anderson (author of the new book We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film), Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), and Zackary Drucker (The StrollQueenmakerThe Lady & The Dale). Moderated by Outfest TNBI Summit co-programers Gabi Grossman and Kieran Medina.

This panel represents an inflection point in the history of trans cinema. Between Outfest Fusion and Outfest Los Angeles, Outfest’s programs this year feature an extraordinary array of films by TNBI filmmakers that are aesthetically daring, that consciously engage with our community’s past to chart a new course for the future, and that understand that the current climate necessitates rethinking what it means to be a “trans film" and what it means to be a filmmaker of trans experience. Just as the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival bound and defined the New Queer Cinema movement when our community was in a time of crisis, so too do we want to mark this moment for the TNBI filmmakers and community standing defiant in a time of uncertainty, fear, and violence. The panel features Aitch Alberto (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe), Alice Maio Mackay (T Blockers), and Georden West (Playland), Sav Rodgers (Chasing Chasing Amy), Tre’vell Anderson (author of the new book We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film), Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), and Zackary Drucker (The StrollQueenmakerThe Lady & The Dale). Moderated by Outfest TNBI Summit co-programers Gabi Grossman and Kieran Medina.

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    2023