Mississippi Transgender Filmmaker, Diana Salameh Completes Filming in Her Home TownMelodika.net
http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=347766&Itemid=54As the heat of summer radiates outside of her home, Diana Salameh refreshes her iced tea and updates her Facebook with news about the film she has just completed. It may come to a surprise for many in this rural outpost between Columbus and Meridian, Mississippi, that a movie was shot here at all. Ever since being outed by a Columbus newspaper five years ago as being a post-operative transsexual, the filmmaker has lived and worked quietly in the town she has called home since moving from Charlotte, North Carolina twenty years ago.
Over the last year, Diana Salameh, has fulfilled a lifelong dream of creating a full-length motion picture. She began writing the screenplay after returning stateside from her second home in the Kingdom of Jordan. Utilizing several local actors for background and extras, Diana brought in Atlanta-based transgender actress Alexa Diaz to star in her film and production began in December 2011. The majority of the interior shots were filmed in an actual antebellum home in Mississippi and many locations around Noxubee County served as background shots
The film [
Desiree - A Ghost Story] wrapped in late July and is headed for post-production in August.
