Filmmaker Takes Heat Over Transgender Inspired Film

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Filmmaker Takes Heat Over Transgender Inspired Film

By: Shazia Khan

http://www.ny1.com/6-bronx-news-content/special_reports/118029/filmmaker-takes-heat-over-transgender-inspired-film/

As the station continues its coverage of the Tribeca Film Festival, NY1's Shazia Khan takes a look at the controversy surrounding one movie about the transgender community.

"It basically strips trans women of their identities and invalidates them and strips them of their human rights," said Ashley Love of Media Advocates Giving Equality to Trans People.

Creator Israel Luna calls the film empowering and describes it as a revenge fantasy, in which the transgender women characters turn the tables on their attackers. He says he penned the film out of frustration from reading articles about hate crimes against transgender women.