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NewFest Presents: “Trans Justice: Then, Now, and Forever”
March 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
NewFest at The Center is back for the year kicking off with “Trans Justice: Then, Now, and Forever” a nonfiction shorts screening + conversation. Runtime: 57 mins screening followed by Q&A conversation).
Featured Short Films/descriptions:
COMPTON’S ‘22
Dir. Drew de Pinto, USA, 2023, 17 min
Three years before Stonewall, trans sex workers and drag queens rioted against police violence at Compton's Cafeteria. In a poetic intergenerational dialogue, contemporary trans artists interpret oral histories from the legendary Compton’s Queens.
MNM
Dir. Twiggy Pucci Garçon, USA, 2023, 16 mins
An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that can be both liberating and compartmentalized around gender.
HOUSE OF TULIP
Dir. Cydney Tucker, USA, 2023, 24 mins
Follow two Black trans activists as they run for office and work to build Louisiana’s first housing refuge that provides residency for trans and gender non-conforming residents. We’ll follow the founders as they fight to use their organization to protect and build community in a state with one of the highest gun-related murder rates in the country. Their journeys will highlight the dangerous yet beautiful reality of what it means to be Black trans women in the deep South