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The Outfest Los Angeles Trans, Nonbinary & Intersex Summit (TNBI Summit) began as a creative response to the exclusion of TNBI voices in the development of TNBI narratives within Hollywood. Now in its seventh year, the TNBI Summit has evolved into a space to showcase and celebrate trans, non-binary, and intersex storytellers and talent, cultivate community, and facilitate dialogue.
The theme this year is Rebellious Abundance. Pivoting on the theme of Envisioning Abundance from Outfest Fusion, the summit will highlight the ways in which TNBI artists build visions and futures by embracing the rebellion that has always defined gender variance.
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 Stroll, Queenmaker, The Lady & The Dale). Moderated by Outfest TNBI Summit co-programers Gabi Grossman and Kieran Medina.
- Year2023
The Outfest Los Angeles Trans, Nonbinary & Intersex Summit (TNBI Summit) began as a creative response to the exclusion of TNBI voices in the development of TNBI narratives within Hollywood. Now in its seventh year, the TNBI Summit has evolved into a space to showcase and celebrate trans, non-binary, and intersex storytellers and talent, cultivate community, and facilitate dialogue.
The theme this year is Rebellious Abundance. Pivoting on the theme of Envisioning Abundance from Outfest Fusion, the summit will highlight the ways in which TNBI artists build visions and futures by embracing the rebellion that has always defined gender variance.
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 Stroll, Queenmaker, The Lady & The Dale). Moderated by Outfest TNBI Summit co-programers Gabi Grossman and Kieran Medina.
- Year2023