Photos of Angie / Bullied
Review by Doug Rule
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/reel_affirmations_2011/?id=201138JUSTICE WAS SERVED in the 2008 murder of Angie Zapata, even though the decks were stacked against her. A transgender living in conservative, rural Colorado, her alleged murderer was tried before a primarily older, white, male jury, and her lawyers went with the ''panic defense'' -- that is, Angie was only beaten to death after her murderer discovered she was biologically still a he.
Alan Dominguez's incredibly touching film relates the joyous outcome of the first court case to successfully apply Colorado's hate crime law to a transgender issue: Angie's killer was found guilty on all counts and put behind bars for life. It's since become a landmark case, a model for others to follow.
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Tomboy
Review by Randy Shulman
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/reel_affirmations_2011/?id=201130CÉLINE SCIAMMA'S UNASSUMING, tender drama revolves around Laure (Zoé Héran), a pre-teen girl who refuses to shed her tomboyish ways. With her short hair, steel-eyed gaze, and slight swagger, it's no surprise that when her family moves to a new apartment complex, Laure is instantly mistaken by the neighborhood kids as "the new boy." She does nothing to dissuade her playmates, passing herself off as Michael. Since she's not yet developed breasts, going shirtless isn't really an issue in a game of "shirts vs. skins," but swimming -- ah, well that presents an altogether different situation. Nothing a carefully positioned lump of Play-Doh can't solve.
