2023 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

Program 1

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10 films in package
Auntie Chris Signs of Rivers
Auntie Chris Smith performs an ASL adaptation of Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
If I cannot Feed all the Hungers of The World, do I still hold Value?
Dysphoria follows as I, a demisexual non-binary femme, find myself in my Prime of external beauty approved by western standards.
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City Folx Episode 1, The Ads
City Folx is a comedy web series chronicling two under-employed Drag Kings’ struggle to hold onto their Mission area apartment.
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House of Enigma
"House of Enigma” is a short film exploring gender on an international scale.
Prittyboi
"Prittyboi" is a docu-style music video that follows two lovebirds on a romantic getaway as they traverse the beautiful Bay Area. They go thrift shopping, play fight with ice cream cones and take in the Marin County landscapes. Pandaraps', "Prittyboi" is a romantic hip-hop ballad about coming out as Genderqueer.
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Gender Euphoria: Trans people in the Bay Area
A documentary to showcase the lives of the diverse trans community in the SF Bay Area.
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AT WATER'S EDGE
Featuring mesmerizing queer dance in watery coves and ocean edges, AT WATER'S EDGE is a short dance film by Emmy Award-winning transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey.
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Last Call
A magical realist 16mm short focusing on the caretakers of three historic queer bars in San Francisco as they close their establishments, temporarily and permanently, amidst the 2020 COVID lockdown.
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CHIRON
I run a bath for your health, I fill it with the best herbs that only a hearts wealth can buy my love.
Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs In Their Limpias?
A struggling Latinx healer considers abandoning the physical world for promises of a digital utopia.
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Featuring mesmerizing queer dance in watery coves and ocean edges, AT WATER'S EDGE is a short dance film by Emmy Award-winning transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey. AT WATER'S EDGE juxtaposes trans and queer bodies in motion with water -- mutable, flowing, and ever-transforming. This short is part of a series of dance films created as part of Sean Dorsey Dance's THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project. (Other films in the series include PLACE/PORTAL and SEEK/AFTER.) "Stunning...These films are exquisite, intimate, and radiate with Dorsey’s gesture-rich choreography." (Bay Times) "Gorgeous" (48 Hills) Dorsey has been awarded an Emmy Award ("Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans & Queer Futures), five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, and is a Doris Duke Artist and a Dance/USA Artist Fellow. Dorsey is widely recognized as the USA's first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer. Dorsey's THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project imagines expansive trans, gender-nonconforming and queer Futures. This series of short films featuring choreography and performance by the groundbreaking all-LGBTQ Sean Dorsey Dance company -- and is an invitation to reclaim, conjure, and manifest joy, pleasure, well-being, freedom, love, connection, and liberation. The series features 6 short films: AT WATER'S EDGE, SEEK/AFTER, PLACE/PORTAL, SPELL/DREAM, UNFOLD/INTO, and SEEK/AFTER. https://seandorseydance.com/


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Sean Dorsey is an Emmy award-winning choreographer, dancer, writer, educator and activist. Long recognized as the U.S.’ first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has toured his work to more than 30 cities across the US and abroad – and taught with his explicitly trans-positive pedagogy in more than 35 cities.

  • Runtime
    3:31
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Subtitle Language
    English
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  • Director
    Sean Dorsey
  • Cinematographer
    Annalise Ophelian
  • Editor
    Sean Dorsey
  • Composer
    Anomie Belle