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Protests and Defense of a Transgender Comedy at Tribeca Festival

Started by Shana A, March 27, 2010, 08:16:00 AM

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March 27, 2010, 08:16:00 AM
Protests and Defense of a Transgender Comedy at Tribeca Festival
By DAVE ITZKOFF

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/protests-and-defense-of-a-transgender-comedy-at-tribeca-festival/

A film selected for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival called "Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives" hasn't been screened there yet, but it's already had that very effect on members of the transgender community and their supporters, prompting an advocacy group to call for the film's removal from the festival lineup as well as a rapid defense from its creators and festival organizers.

In the official online listing for "Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s," a comedy by Israel Luna that is making its world premiere at the Tribeca festival, the film is described as a "campy homage to the exploitation films" in which "a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead," but then "the violated vixens turn deadly divas."
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