Trans Awareness Week

LGBTQ+, reviews, Sundance, Sundance 40, Trans Awareness Week

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Sundance 40 Review: An Intersectional Exploration of Transmasculinity and Identity Makes “Desire Lines” A True Standout

by Emily Jacobson

January 25, 2024

On Friday, January 19th, the Utah House of Representatives voted to advance a restrictive anti-trans bill outlawing trans people from using bathrooms aligning with their gender identity. It will now

Black History, Chicago, Chicago International Film Festival, Interviews, Juneteenth, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week, Women's History Month

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A Look Back: Luchina Fisher’s “Mama Gloria” brings a hopeful outlook to the young trans community

by Rebecca Martin

March 16, 2022

For Women’s History Month and Trans Visibility Day approaching on March 31, we bring back our interview from the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2020. We are proud to

Asian American, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week

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Isabel Sandoval beautifully elevates the marginalized in “Lingua Franca”

by Rebecca Martin

August 28, 2020

“Every image or sound is a vessel for emotion: rapture, despair, sensuousness, fury, a combination of these. That makes cinema a kind of legerdemain: the art of sculpting such seemingly

Film Festivals, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Trans Awareness Week

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Filmmaker Anna Kerrigan takes us on the heartfelt journey of a father and his trans son in “Cowboys”

by Rebecca Martin

May 6, 2020

I like that idea that when you’re in nature you can be your true self, and not influenced by the constructs of your society. It’s a really interesting way to

Chicago, Film Critics, Interviews, Trans Awareness Week

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A conversation between Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin and film critic Danielle Solzman

by Rebecca Martin

February 25, 2019

"This past season, GLAAD did their report, and there’s been an increase of trans actors in series, but a lot of that is because of “Pose” (2018). So it would
"Strong Island" Essays, Trans Awareness Week

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A Poem for the Mother

by Jaylan Salah

February 25, 2019

Illustration by Tavi Veraldi A Poem for the Mother Who lost her son… In a car crash In a dog fight Amid the dust mines of recessed memories A poem for the

"Strong Island" Essays, Trans Awareness Week

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‘Strong Island’: documentary filmmaking as a coming-of-age tale

by Jaylan Salah

February 25, 2019

It’s always the women, the queer, and the blacks. They are the ones who tell stories. They are the ones who dig deep into their families’ histories. They are the

"Strong Island" Essays, Trans Awareness Week

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The contours of fear: a documentary elegy

by Marjorie H. Morgan

February 25, 2019

It is a pessimistic view of life in America, and for Yance Ford and millions of people who look like him, it is a daily reality: living with the fear

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