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Title: Open: A Transgender Love Story For the 21st Century Queer
Post by: Shana A on July 19, 2010, 08:45:04 AM
Post by: Shana A on July 19, 2010, 08:45:04 AM
Open: A Transgender Love Story For the 21st Century Queer
http://www.queerty.com/open-a-transgender-love-story-for-the-21st-century-queer-20100719/ (http://www.queerty.com/open-a-transgender-love-story-for-the-21st-century-queer-20100719/)
REVIEWS YOU CAN USE: Queerty's at the Outfest LGBT film festival in LA covering the latest in queer indie flicks. This time, we look at a romantic comedy where a some liquor, lies, and lesbianism go a long way.
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?: When Gen's pandrogynous partner Jay leaves Minneapolis for a long trip, Gen spends time traveling the city with Cynthia, a young intersex person without a home. Concurrently, gay hipster Nick and transman Syd hook up at a bar and begin dating. Both relationships quickly get a lot more serious than anybody intended leaving everyone to question their hearts, identities, and futures together.
WHO'S IN IT?: While researching the film, director Jake Yuzna cast his interviewees to have authentically pandrogynous, intersex, queer, and transgender performers. This includes Gen and Jay (Tempest Crane and Jendeen Forberg), a couple who have had plastic surgeries and gender therapies to look like the mirror images of one another; a young intersex person Cynthia (Gaea Gaddy) who is unsure how to proceed with hir physical transformation and love life; and Syd (Morty Diamond), a real-life trans pornographer with a pussy. Yuzna then used his actors' experiences to help inform his script.
http://www.queerty.com/open-a-transgender-love-story-for-the-21st-century-queer-20100719/ (http://www.queerty.com/open-a-transgender-love-story-for-the-21st-century-queer-20100719/)
REVIEWS YOU CAN USE: Queerty's at the Outfest LGBT film festival in LA covering the latest in queer indie flicks. This time, we look at a romantic comedy where a some liquor, lies, and lesbianism go a long way.
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?: When Gen's pandrogynous partner Jay leaves Minneapolis for a long trip, Gen spends time traveling the city with Cynthia, a young intersex person without a home. Concurrently, gay hipster Nick and transman Syd hook up at a bar and begin dating. Both relationships quickly get a lot more serious than anybody intended leaving everyone to question their hearts, identities, and futures together.
WHO'S IN IT?: While researching the film, director Jake Yuzna cast his interviewees to have authentically pandrogynous, intersex, queer, and transgender performers. This includes Gen and Jay (Tempest Crane and Jendeen Forberg), a couple who have had plastic surgeries and gender therapies to look like the mirror images of one another; a young intersex person Cynthia (Gaea Gaddy) who is unsure how to proceed with hir physical transformation and love life; and Syd (Morty Diamond), a real-life trans pornographer with a pussy. Yuzna then used his actors' experiences to help inform his script.