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!

References

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