Filmmaker Spotlight: Seven King of Eden’s Garden

Gender Reel’s 2015 fall festival circuit kicks off September 30th in Boston and continues throughout the months of October and November in Minneapolis, Durham, Omaha and Houston. This year, Gender Reel features 21 amazing films exploring a range of issues related to the trans and gender non-conforming experience, including premiere screenings of Eden’s Garden — a short […]

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A festival committed to accessibility!

Gender Reel 2014 is just around the corner! This year, Gender Reel will host festivals in five cities across the United States: Minneapolis, Long Beach, Omaha, Durham and Philadelphia. The festival features 29 films, Q&A’s, panel discussions, and performance art. Since Gender Reel’s onset in 2011, the festival has grown nationally in terms of how many festivals are hosted yearly, as well […]

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In Trouble with Courtney!

Courtney Trouble   Gender Reel’s Founder & Chair, Joe Ippolito, had the pleasure of interviewing one of queer porn’s most notorious diva’s, Courtney Trouble. Courtney, who started creating queer porn in 2002, did so in response to the lack of queer representation in more mainstream porn. At the time, her site IndiePornRevolution.com (then called NoFauxxx), to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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This is the story of how grrrls changed the world!

In 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 rockmovement that started in the early to mid-1990s. The film highlights out the movements impact […]

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