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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All films in this program are closed-captioned.

Using gender and artistic expression alike, two artists on opposite sides of the world explore what it means to exist as an enigma, something that can never be defined, only expressed. softcagefilms.com


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Slade Warnken (she/they) - Co-Director

Slade aka Sw33t is a musician and documentary filmmaker with a focus on how we express identity, desire and transformation through performance. Based in New Orleans, Slade’s true passion is creating spaces that encourage multi disciplinary collaboration and House of Enigma was no different. Her goal was to create a film that brought together queer artists all over the world to try and describe the intangible feeling of finding a home in your body through performance and artistic expression.


Ying Dai 代莹 (They/she) - Co-Director

Ying is a Chinese photographer, filmmaker, and a multi-disciplinary scholar. They are currently based in Chicago, IL and Madison, WI. Their work focuses on issues of gender, queerness, immigration, fat liberation, anti-imperialism, and BIPOC resistance and joy. Their creative motivations stem from a deep commitment to their communities and a fierce love for their friends. @yingggdai

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    11:20
  • Language
    English, Chinese
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    West Coast
  • Genre
    Documentary, Short
  • Subtitle Language
    English
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  • Director
    Slade Warnken, Ying Dai
  • Producer
    David A. Holcombe
  • Cast
    Xitlali Celesté, Augus Wang
  • Cinematographer
    Slade Warnken, Ying Dai
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