Transgender Flick Kicks Off 2011 Edition of LA's Oldest Film Festival
By Richard Horgan on July 7, 2011 5:00 PM
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The 2011 edition of Outfest really could not have picked a better film for tonight's opening gala slot.
Fresh from Sundance and San Francisco's Frameline event, the drama Gun Hill Road marks the directorial debut of actor Rashaad Ernesto Green. Esai Morales stars as a dad who, after three years in prison, returns home to find that his teenage son has become a transgender woman, played by real-life transgender female Harmony Santana (pictured). The New York based Green tells LA Times reporter Susan King that he is thrilled to be presenting at Outfest, ahead of the film's scheduled August 5 theatrical release:
"I think it is one of the first times at least in American cinema we are actually getting to see a transgender main character played by a transgender person," said Green.