Gender Reel Festival
A Multi-media Festival dedicated to enhancing visibility of gender non-comforting & transgender people and experiences.
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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Gender Reel, the countries only coast-to-coast film & performance art festival, turned five this year. In recognition of this, festival organizers are gearing up for an amazing year of events and screenings throughout the country. Gender Reel, kicked off 2015 with a bang February 7 & 8, 2015 at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. This […]
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Gender Reel 2015 is just around the corner and this year the “little festival that could” will be celebrating its 5th year birthday. Over the past 4 years, Gender Reel, has hosted festivals in eight cities around the country – Portland, OR, Oakland, CA, Long Beach, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Omaha, NE, Kenosha, WI, Philadelphia, PA, Durham, […]
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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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On April 18 & 19, 2014, Gender Reel will host a two day festival at The University of Wisconsin Parkside Campus. This event is the first of it’s kind for Gender Reel. The festival has been working on ways to expand its offerings and bring more trans visibility to larger audiences of people, like those present […]
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Although Hollywood still has a long way to go when it comes to embracing transgender films and actors, there have been quite a few transgender movies that have managed to make it into the mainstream. While most of these transgender films aim to show what life is like for someone […]
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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, 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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Gender Reel Festival
A Multi-media Festival dedicated to enhancing visibility of gender non-comforting & transgender people and experiences.
