Trailer to Change for Transgender Film
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: March 30, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/movies/31arts-TRAILERTOCHA_BRF.htmlThe director of "Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives," a movie planned for the Tribeca Film Festival that has set off a war of words before being screened there, said he would amend its trailer so it would not refer to real-life victims of violence. In an e-mail message, Israel Luna, who wrote and directed the film, said he was inspired to create the movie "in part by the hate crimes against the trans community." He said he included references in his trailer to Angie Zapata, a transgender woman who was beaten to death in Colorado in 2008, and to Jorge Mercado, a gay teenager who was murdered in Puerto Rico in 2009, "to give a disturbing reality to my film about transgender violence." "After listening to some of the voices in the trans community," Mr. Luna said, "I've decided to remove those references from the trailer."
