Gender Reel kicks it in 2013!

Gender Reel, is the fist and only film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming and transgender people, experiences and images, to take place in four cities across the nation. Gender Reel, was started by a group of Philadelphia based activists in 2010 and has since expanded to include three addtional cities across the …

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The 2013 Gender Reel Film and Performance Art Festival honors filmmaker Christopher Lee

Gender Reel, will feature two of Christopher Lee's films at the upcoming festival in September. Known for his transgressive filmmaking, Christopher Lee (48) died by suicide on December 22, 2012, after suffering for years with bouts of depression and mental illness.  Lee, served in 2002 as the first female-to-male grand marshal in the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. He is also …

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Gender Reel and the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference do it again!

On June 14, 2013, Gender Reel, will showcase four amazing films from it's previous years event at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. PTHC is entering it's 12th year and is known to be the largest transgender conference in the country, drawing over 2500 people from all parts of the world to the event.    According to Gender Reel Founder and Chair, Joe Ippolito, the goal of …

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Gender Reel supports the power of Black Transmen and their 2013 conference!

The 2nd Annual Black Transmen, Inc Transgender Advocacy Conference takes place March 13-17, 2013 in Dallas Texas. This years conference is entitled, "The Power of You," and is an empowering compilation of education workshops and lively entertainment that will empower attendees to become their own agents of change.  The 1st Annual Conference, themed ” Stepping Up and Stepping Out,”  was the prologue …

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Gender Reel expands to cities across the U.S.

The 2013 Gender Reel festival is expanding. The two-year-old, East Coast based multi-media festival is scheduled to take place in various cities across the United States. The festival originated in Philadelphia, PA in 2011. However, it is now set to take place in Minneapolis, MN and Philadelphia, PA, in Sept 2013, with plans to add Oakland, CA, and Portland, OR, to the list of places where the 2013 festival film and performance art …

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Jun 04

Gender Reel kicks it in 2013!

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GRflyer_2013_4x1Gender Reel, is the fist and only film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming and transgender people, experiences and images, to take place in four cities across the nation.

Gender Reel, was started by a group of Philadelphia based activists in 2010 and has since expanded to include three addtional cities across the U.S. The festival will be held Sept 19-21, 2013 in Portland, OR, Oakland, CA, Minneapolis, MN, and Philadelphia, PA.

Over the past two years, Gender Reel has featured over 50 films, performance, art and  photography pieces and 15 workshops, panel discussions and Q & A's. Organizers continue to work hard to create an inclusive, empowering and fun event for people of all ages, genders, orientations, cultures, identities and experiences.

 

2013 Festival highlights so far include, but are not limited to:

  • A tribute to filmmaker Christopher Lee, the first trans filmmaker to create, direct and produce erotica featuring trans men.
  • A performance piece and guest speaking engagement by JamieAnn Meyers (Minneapolis) and Fairy Butch Karlyn Issac Lotney (Oakland).
  • Premier of TroubleFilms newest trans inclusive porn, Trans Babes.
  • National performances by trans youth of color.
  • Over 20 independently created films by nationally recognized filmmakers.

On June 13, Gender Reel will be hosting a mini film festival at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. Four amazing films, Austin Unbound, Bye Bye Baby Box, The Difference and the Sisterhood,  from the 2012 festival will be featured.

In addition to hosting a mini film festival, Gender Reel will be vending at the conference. If you are attending PTHC and want to learn more about Gender Reel please swing by our vending table during the conference on Thursday, Friday or Saturday from 10 am-4 pm.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filmmakers and Performance Artists who are still interested in submitting work to Gender Reel can do so through our submission form located on the website. The submission process remains open unitl June 20, 2013. 

Other ways to get involved and/or support Gender Reel include: Volunteering at an event, becoming a sponsor and placing an ad on our website or program guide. Details regarding these options can also be clarified by consulting our website.  

Gender Reel is a festival for the community, by the community and we need your support to keep it going strong.

 

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Apr 06

The 2013 Gender Reel Film and Performance Art Festival honors filmmaker Christopher Lee

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Gender Reel, will feature two of Christopher Lee's films at the upcoming festival in September.

Known for his transgressive filmmaking, Christopher Lee (48) died by suicide on December 22, 2012, after suffering for years with bouts of depression and mental illness. 

Lee, served in 2002 as the first female-to-male grand marshal in the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. He is also remembered for his work with Tranny Fest, now called the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, and the creation of a serious of groundbreaking films about the transgender experience.

Lee's first film, Christopher's Chronicles, explored the intricacies of his own transition, while his other films, Trappings of Transhood and Alley of the Tranny Boys, were fearless documentations of trans identity and sexuality. Alley of the Tranny Boys, released in 1998, is the first historically significant feature length film claiming an erotic and pornographic space for FTMs.

Lee devoted his energy to filmmaking and activism and will be remembered by many, including Gender Reel, as a unifying force in the trans community. 

Gender Reel will showcase Lee's films at all four of it's festivals this year. Individuals interested in catching these films in your town can do so by consulting Gender Reel's film schedules in August 2013. 

 

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Apr 04

Gender Reel and the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference do it again!

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trans-healthlogo_noyr1On June 14, 2013, Gender Reel, will showcase four amazing films from it's previous years event at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference. PTHC is entering it's 12th year and is known to be the largest transgender conference in the country, drawing over 2500 people from all parts of the world to the event.   

According to Gender Reel Founder and Chair, Joe Ippolito, the goal of having a mini film festival at the conference is to expose the community to the amazing films Gender Reel has to offer.  "We held our first mini fest at the conference in 2012 and the turnout was very successfull," reports Ippolito.  

The mini film festival is being held Friday, June 14, 2013 from 5:40 pm to 7:00 pm and will feature the four following films: 

Austin Unbound: From the age of three, Austin knew that his female anatomy did not fit him. In middle school, he changed his name and began to dress as a boy. His family thought it was a phase, but he persisted. Now he will get surgery so he can breathe freely and finally, swim in public. Austin Unbound is the first documentary about a man who is deaf and trans.

A Difference: A Difference is a short non-fiction video that examines the intersectionalities between gender transition and racial difference. Transmen of color as well as white transmen are interviewed in this mix of answers to ’what does it mean to transition from being (read as) a white women to being a white man as vs transitioning from being (read as) a woman of color to being a man of color? 

Sisterhood: This short documentary examines the lives of a group of Latino trans women who work at a beauty salon in Bronx, New York. 

Bye Bye Babybox: This film was originally conceived as the promo video for a fundraiser that would raise money to assist a Houston-area FTM in getting a hysterectomy. The concept was simple, a transguy has a dream (or maybe it’s a nightmare) about being pregnant. Presented humorously through sight gags, a quirky doctor, and dreamlike randomness the film brings humor to what would be a potentially frightening and uncomfortable situation for some transguys. 

Gender Reel, is the only national film and performance art festival dedicated to the gender non-conforming and transgender community, being hosted in four cities around the country: Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Oakland and Portland, September 19-21, 2013.  

Individuals interested in learning more about Gender Reel, the submission process and/or ways they can bring the festival to their city can do so in person during the conference by stopping by our vending table and talking to one of our amazing organizers or volunteers. 

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Feb 06

Gender Reel supports the power of Black Transmen and their 2013 conference!

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276737_150092281799297_1771013280_nThe 2nd Annual Black Transmen, Inc Transgender Advocacy Conference takes place March 13-17, 2013 in Dallas Texas.

This years conference is entitled, "The Power of You," and is an empowering compilation of education workshops and lively entertainment that will empower attendees to become their own agents of change. 

The 1st Annual Conference, themed ” Stepping Up and Stepping Out,”  was the prologue to the critical impact the transgender community is making for positive social change.  Hundreds of people from around the world attended the event and organizers expect the 2013 conference to be just as successful. 

Conference highlights include, but are not limited to: Keynote addresses by Kylar Broadus & Monica Roberts, Mr. and Ms. Black Transgender International Pageant, a health and career fair, and much, much more.

Black Transmen Inc. is the 1st National Non-Profit Organization of African American transmen solely focused on acknowledgment, social advocacy and empowering African American trans men with resources to aid in a healthy female to male transition. Black Transmen Inc is on the forefront of transgender services for people of color and strives to advance the transgender community as a whole, creating programs geared towards supporting all female to male transmen and SLGBTQI individuals, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sexual identity or sexual expression.

To find out more about this amazing event, including how to register, visit the website at http://retreat.blacktransmen.org/index.html.

 

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Jan 11

Gender Reel expands to cities across the U.S.

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mapThe 2013 Gender Reel festival is expanding.

The two-year-old, East Coast based multi-media festival is scheduled to take place in various cities across the United States. The festival originated in Philadelphia, PA in 2011. However, it is now set to take place in Minneapolis, MN and Philadelphia, PA, in Sept 2013, with plans to add Oakland, CA, and Portland, OR, to the list of places where the 2013 festival film and performance art program will be showcased.

According to Gender Reel Founder and Chair Joe Ippolito, "The festival grew in popularity a lot since it started in 2011 and we wanted to bring this experience to others." The festival, which started off with a multi-media platform, will now focuse only on film and performance art. "While the visual art and photography pieces were well received, the film and performance art aspects drew the largest crowd and organizers felt focusing on this would make it easier to expand," Ippolito explains.

Filmmakers and performance artists interested in submitting work to Gender Reel can do so through our "submit" page on the website. The submission process begins April 20, 2013 and ends June 20, 2013.

Gender Reel is committed to diversity and strongly encourages film and performance submissions from people of color communities, gender queer folks, and trans women.

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Jan 09

This is the story of how grrrls changed the world!

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riotgrrrlIn the film, "Riot Grrrl: The Self-Told Narrative," Filmmakers, Angie Young, and, Vega Darling, explore the dissemination of the "personal is political.”

 

The film, which is due out later this year, explores the onset of the Riot Grrrl movement, an underground, feminist, punk rock movement that started in the early to mid-1990s. The film highlights out the movements impact on our culture and it's influence on third wave feminism.

 

Riot Grrrl bands, such as Bikini Kill, The Butchies, L7 and Team Dresch, address issues of rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, racism, patriarchy, and female empowerment. In addition to the music scene and genre, Riot Grrrl, consists of a larger subculture of zines, DIY art, political action, and activism.

 

Young, most notably known for her 2006 film, The Coat Hanger Project,” and Darling, hope to use the film to look at, Riot Grrrl, in new and important ways. The film showcases the untold stories of queers, sex workers, women of color, trans* individuals and men, affected by Riot Grrrl. It also illustrates the ways, Riot Grrrl, slipped unknowingly into our collective consciousness, explores the complexity of identity and looks at the past and the present of, Riot Grrrl.

 

To find out more about "Riot Grrrl: The Self-Told Narrative," and/or help support this project visit the films website @  http://www.riotgrrrlfilm.com/Home_Page.html.

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Sep 02

2012 Gender Reel Silent Auction

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Piggy backing off the success of last year, Gender Reel, will host another art auction this year. Last year, GR raised close to $200 in proceeds for the festival. The art auction takes place during Gender Reel 's Opening Reception on Friday, 9/7/12 at the William Way Community Center from 6-8:30 PM.

Local artists and TG/GV allies Morris Klein and Mina Smith-Segal donated various copies of their art work to auction this year. 

Auctioned artwork starts bidding at $25. Artists interested in donating art work to GR's auction should contact Gender Reel Chair Joe Ippolito at genderreelfest@gmail.com. We are also open to accepting donations of non-art related items for the auction. Individuals looking to donate these kind of things should check in with Joe first. 

All items need to be dropped off at the WWCC on Friday, 9/7/12, between 2 pm-5 pm.

 

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Aug 06

2012 Gender Reel Press Release!!!

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Gender Reel 2012

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The 2nd Annual Gender Reel Festival is just around the corner!

The first of its kind on the east coast, Gender Reel, is the only multi-media festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming and transgender artists in film, photography, art and performance. The 2012 festival features: 20 films, 8 artists/photographers, 10 performance artists, 3 panels and 4 workshops.

According to Gender Reel Chair, Joe Ippolito, "Gender Reel 2012 is going to be another great year. The festival has grown in a number of ways, including expanding our venue location to the William Way Community Center, adding more performance art to the mix and offering more hands on art and film workshops to our patrons. I am happy to report that Gender Reel does exactly what we envisioned it doing when we came up with the idea in November 2010 in that it is providing a safe, supportive and empowering place where Gnc/TG people can display their multi-media art work." 

2012 Festival Highlights include:

  • Friday, 9/7 Opening Wine & Cheese Opening Reception @ 6 pm. Free to anyone who wants to attend.
  • Friday, 9/7 @ 7:30 PM: Discussion and performance by notable guest and performance artist, Ignacio Rivera, from NYC.
  • 50 day collaboration of art between Gender Reel and the William Way Community Center's LGBTQ Art Gallery. This collaboration runs from 9/7/12- 10/26/12.
  • Saturday, 9/9 @ 11 AM: The Painted Self: The return of last year’s heavily attended water color workshop facilitated by Gender Reel's very own Sam Richman.
  • Saturday, 9/8 @ 3 PM: The Final Cut: This panel explores how mainstream portrayals of people of color in film and television impact the lives of queer people of color.
  • Saturday, 9/8 @ 4:30 PM: TransHISTORY: This workshop explores the history of transgender people in film.
  • Saturday, 9/8 @ 9 PM: MixTape, Gender Reel's surgery fundraising party, returns as a collaborative effort with the organizers of BLITZ. Location: Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar. Cover: $5-$10.
  • Sunday, 9/9 @ 4 PM: Panel Discussion with the filmmaker of "Trans," the 2012 award winning documentary.

Other films to see: Facing Mirrors; Trans, America's Most Wanted; Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow, Makes Me Want to Believe, Present Continuous, Transpass, A Difference, Austin Unbound, I Am Queen, The Sisterhood, Bye, Bye Baby Box, Transsexual Dominatrix, I am Trans, Sisterhood, Akin, Against the Grain, Gloucerter City, My Town, Taki Mam, Glen or Glenda.

Other artists & performers to catch: Bo Luengsuraswat, Jaden Rogers, Josephine Yuonne Paulovic, Markus Harwood-Jones, Takeya Trayer, Krissy Mahan, Sarah Barnard, Chance DeSilvah, Ignacio Rivera, Qian Li, Gender Edge, Justin Deforest and Radium Angels.

Tickets:

$20.00          All Festival Pass (except MixTape)

$10.00          Day Pass (except MixTape)

$100.00        Group Pass (6+ people, except MixTape).

2012 Gender Reel Sponsors: Leeway Foundation, Christin McGinn, Safeguards, Kathy Rumor & Galaei.

To find out more about Gender Reel’s 2012 programming, vending options (limited spots available until 8/15), ticket prices and more please consult our website @ www.genderreelfest.com.

Other questions can be directed to Gender Reel Chair Joe Ippolito @ genderreelfest@gmail.com and/or by calling 267-974-4259.

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Jun 08

Radical…just a bit!

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Just a Bit Radical, is a new magazine, focusing on the needs and stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (and allies, too!) youth. 

Based in Massachusetts, the magazine  features stories about prominent entertainers and Q&A's about popular LGBTQ initiatives. 

Earlier this month, Gender Reel Chair Joe Ippolito had a chance to talk with Editor-in-Chief, Catherine Oliver, about Just a Bit Radical. Here is what she had to say about this innovative magazine.

Joe: "What inspired the creation of Just a Bit Radical?"

Catherine: "I decided to start Just a Bit Radical because I was tired of seeing the suicides of LGBT youth every time I turned around. I was tired of seeing every magazine only cater to one part of the LGBT spectrum and never include youth. Most publications only focus on 18-and-over content and never think about what the younger generation has to say. I also am alarmed at the lack of transgender representation in print. Being bigender myself, I think that having a positive trans* voice in print and digital media is important. I gathered an amazing team of individuals to help me, and here we are today!"
 

Joe: "What has been the communities response to the magazine so far?"

Catherine: "We’ve had an overwhelmingly supportive response from so many amazing people. We launch our website and first issue in June, and myself and my team are looking forward to feedback from the community at large once they see the first magazine completed."

Joe: "What are three primary goals JaBR hopes to achieve when it comes to
helping LGBTQ youth?"

Catherine: "First, to give youth a place to submit their stories/artwork/photography/etc. It’s very important to us to offer youth a chance to express themselves in what might be the only safe creative outlet they can find. Secondly, to bring together the community under one banner instead of focusing on our differences. Lastly, we hope to be a voice for equality and fairness for all individuals and provide those that might not have listened to our message a chance to read our publication and perhaps broaden their horizons."

Joe: "In what ways is JaBR hoping to expand and/or grow over the next year or so?"

Catherine: "We’re going to be launching three more ‘zines this year–and are always looking for new submissions. We’d like to grow as a company, and become a go-to in the LGBT world for youth publications."

Want more JABR, check out their website @ justabitradical.wordpress.com.

 

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May 11

Gender Reel and Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference take Philly by storm!

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On Thursday, May 31, 2012 the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference will host it's first annual Gender Reel mini film festival.

The free mini film fest will take place the first night of the conference from 7-8:30 pm in Room 103A. The primary goal of this years mini film festival is to give PTHC attendees a chance to experience the types of amazing films the Gender Reel Festival supports and shows at it's annual event in Sept.

This years mini film festival will premier three amazing films about gender non-conforming and transgender activists: Envisioning Justice, Against the Grain and Changing Houses. Q & A's with Envisioning Juctice's Pauline Park and Against the Grain OluSeyi O. Adebanjo

will immediately follow the screening. However, attending the mini filim fest is not the only way folks can get a taste of what Gender Reel has to offer. 

Later that night, GR will host it's 2nd Annual "Still Coming Out," fundraiser at Tabu (200 S 12th Street) from 10 pm-2 am. Last years fundraiser was a huge success and we are hoping to do it again this year. 

At the beginning of the event, Ryan Sallans will be reading from his new book, "Second Son," followed by four amazing performances by Ryan Cassata, Wordz the Poet Emcee, Geppeta, Katastrophe ""and Dynasty (our MC). Mix and mingle and dance music by Gender Reel's very own DJ Sara Sherr to follow performances. Cover: $5 to $10.

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