For parity to be achieved, we need to have
films featuring trans characters that don't feel the need to be explicitly about trans identity.
Not exact matches
As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known
trans person, Focus
Features — the company distributing the
film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the
film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).
Making history, however, are the foreign
film «A Fantastic Woman» and
feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly
trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.
Of the
films reported, none
featured a
trans character (This excludes the Academy Award - winning indie A Fantastic Woman).
The
film, however,
features these characters in supporting roles and invents a new protagonist named Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine), an «all American» cis (i.e. non
trans) white man who flees to New York after his parents kick him out for being gay.
The Broken Boxes catalog release event will
feature public engagement by participating artists Demian DinéYazhi» and JESS X SNOW, a
film screening of AFTER EARTH directed by JESS X SNOW and a performance of 1000 Tiny Mirrors, a collaborative experimental
trans * / queer rock project presented by Frexy.
An innovative men's health program is drawing on the outstanding Australian
feature film Mad Bastards to address racism,
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