Tribeca Film Festival Promotes Exploitation of Transgender People
Posted by Marti Abernathey on Mar 22nd, 2010
http://www.transadvocate.com/tribeca-film-festival-promotes-exploitation.htmThe Tribeca Film festival has announced it's 2010 lineup of films and "Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives" is among them.
"When a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead, the violated vixens turn deadly divas in this hilariously campy homage to the exploitation films of the '70s and '80s ("Transploitation," anyone?). Loaded with bodacious bods and extreme violence, this revenge fantasy proves that it takes more than balls to get even."
And guess what, it's billed as a COMEDY! Nothing is more hilarious than transwomens deaths! This movie is offensive on so many levels. Not only does the director, Israel Luna, make jokes on the back of hate crimes victims, he portrays transgender women as campy drag queens. Gina over at Skip The Makeup frames this perfectly:
