EP 19: BFI Flare LGBT Film Festival DOUBLE EPISODE!

This bi-week

– Homophobes protest schools!
– Brexit is coming (maybe?)
– Michelle heads over to the BFI LGBT film festival to talk to the directors of Trans Millitary, Call her Ganda and many more!

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1. Dr. Rachel McKinnon ’s Twitter!

This lady is a goddam hero. Give her a follow if interested in trans sports issues:

https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon

2. Birthday Boy short film Kickstarter!

Give these folks money!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leolebeau/birthday-boy?ref=project_build#

https://twitter.com/BdayBoyFilm

3. New south London trans sexual health service!

All the details are here:

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/news/public/news/view/28647

4. Help a dude get top surgery!

Jackson is ace. Give him money!

https://www.gofundme.com/6txz5-jackson039s-top-surgery

5. This Podcast is Queer!

New podcast, check it out! https://anchor.fm/this-podcast-is-queer

6. Interviews we couldn’t squeeze in!

Jess Kohl made a lovely movie about an Indian transgender festival. Watch it here:

https://vimeo.com/277956734

Interview with Jess here:

https://youtu.be/x4yamxm1GBc

http://jesskohl.com/

Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir co-directed the wonderful short ‘I’ (which is ungooglable). It was co written by Owl, Metro columnist and My Genderation film maker!

Interview with Halla here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pLXjXwIcPM

Follow the movie here:

https://www.gerviproductions.com/projects/

Follow Owl here:

7. Cathy Brennan (Film critic)

Read all the stuff!

https://www.bfi.org.uk/people/cathy-brennan

https://twitter.com/TownTattle

https://letterboxd.com/ozuab/

8. Call her Ganda

Excellent documentary film by PJ Raval (https://twitter.com/pjraval) about the murder of a trans woman of colour.

Follow the movie here:

https://twitter.com/pjraval

http://www.callherganda.com/

9. Meredith Talusan

Investigative journalist who worked on Call her Ganda. She is great.

https://www.twitter.com/ 1demerith

https://www.buzzfeed.com/meredithtalusan

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/contributor/meredith-talusan

http://mtalusan.com/

10. Trans Millitary

Fantastic documentary about trans service members fighting the system, by Fiona Dawson (http://www.fionadawson.com/)

http://www.transmilitary.org/

11.Man Made

Documentary about trans body builders! ABS!

http://www.manmadedoc.com/

Links to Mason (doc subject and our interviewee)

https://www.facebook.com/transathlete/

12. Little Miss Westie

Cute movie about trans kids being trans kids!

https://www.lmwdoc.com/

13. Kristiene Clarke

Film making legend. Awesome lady. Here is some of her work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy26MdKtnXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BJyjeyHQao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhcQuorhYTw&t=1s

14. Framing Agnes

Experimental documentary about TRANS IN HISTORY! Follow the movie and film makers here:

https://www.chasejoynt.com/framing-agnes

https://www.chasejoynt.com/

https://twitter.com/ChaseJoynt

15. Anemone

Lovely short!

https://www.foxcubfilms.co.uk/

16. Amrou Al-Kadhi

This non-binary legend does a bit of everything. Check out their podcast NB here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06y51dp/episodes/downloads

Follow all of their high-jinks here:

http://www.amroualkadhi.com/

https://twitter.com/glamrou


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