Riot Acts: Film Explores The Lives Of Transgender And Gender Variant Musicians (

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Riot Acts: Film Explores The Lives Of Transgender And Gender Variant Musicians (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post
By Kate Lowry
08 March, 2010


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/riot-acts-film-explores-t_n_490244.html


Chicago-based acoustic duo Actor Slash Model has been wooing audiences with their folksy tunes and clever song titles for years, but the band's newest project, "Riot Acts," is shedding much-needed light on trans and gender variant musicians in the indie music scene.

On Saturday, the Chicago International Music and Movies Festival screened "Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance," a feature length documentary directed and produced by Madsen Minax and Simon Strikeback of Actor Slash Model. This self-described "transfabulous rockumentary" highlights transgender and gender variant musicians from across the U.S. and Canada.