HBO Premieres Documentary ME @THE ZOO Tonight, 6/25
Monday, June 25, 2012; 12:06 AM - by BWW News Desk
http://tv.broadwayworld.com/article/HBO-to-Premiere-Documentary-ME-THE-ZOO-625-20120624"Leave Britney Alone!" With those three words, delivered in a tearful YouTube video, Chris Crocker launched himself into Internet superstardom, leading to unexpected rewards - and repercussions - for the former bullied teen turned Internet celebrity.
An official selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, ME @THE ZOO tells the story of one young man's coming of age, revealing how video sharing and social platforms shape the way people tell their stories and mediate their lives today. First-time filmmakers Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch directed the timely film, which debuts tonight, JUNE 25 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
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Titled after the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, ME @THE ZOO combines original footageof Crocker with web videos from fans and haters alike, painting an intimateportrait of a young transgendered gay man who may be a fad or a star, and possibly a harbinger of what lies ahead.
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Chris Crocker :: 'What's so hard to understand?'
by Tony Phillips
EDGE Contributor
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
http://www.edgeboston.com/entertainment/television/features/134490/chris_crocker_::_%E2%80%99what%E2%80%99s_so_hard_to_understand?%E2%80%99Three years before sex columnist Dan Savage launched his grassroots It Gets Better project to combat queer teenage suicide, an infinitely gendered nineteen-year-old from Bristol, Tennessee, put his Keds up on the edge of the frame, tossed his multi-colored, Duranie mane back and forth and began to rant like a black transexual in the 47-second YouTube clip titled This & That.
