According to the film, transgender people are more likely than average to be imprisoned, and when in prison often face sexual violence from other prisoners. This documentary focuses on five trans women, three incarcerated and two recently released from prison. Speaking in English, the families talk about shame, grief, love, growth, the importance of family and how they handled their conflicts around homosexuality. Film Australia, 1997)Ĭhina Dolls probes the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and discrimination in the gay world through interviews with Asian men who talk frankly, and often humorously, of their experiences of living within a “double minority.”Ĭoming Out Coming Home (Asian & Pacifc Islander Family Pride, 1996)Īsian & Pacific Islander Family Stories, a 44-minute color video (DVD) featuring interviews of one Filipino and three Chinese families and a dialogue among parents of these gay children.
Trapped between the worlds of the black community and the gay community, Perry searches for a connection in the real world.Ĭhina Dolls (Lindfield, N.S.W. This feature-length portrait unfolds both chronologically and thematically, using interviews and traditional documentary techniques, as well as experimental approaches.īrother to Brother (Wolfe Releasing, 2004)īrother to Brother is the story of Perry a young black artist kicked out of his family home for being gay. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, “Brincando el Charco” tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican photographer/videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US.īrother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (PBS, 2003)ĭirectors: Nancy D.
īrincando el Charco (Women Make Movies, 1996) The film follows a group of Brazilian prostitutes over two years as they work not only the streets of Rio, but those of Paris, Rome and Milan.” The twist is that these prostitutes are gay, transsexual and transvestite. The film traverses the country interviewing African Americans young and old, rich and poor, Northern and Southern, rural and urban, gay and straight, as they discuss the numerous, often contested definitions of Blackness.īlack/Womyn: Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent (Harriet’s Gun Media, 2011)īlack./womyn.:conversations… features interviews with close to 50 out, Black lesbians including Poet/Author Cheryl Clarke, Filmmaker/Activist Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Poet/Author Staceyann Chin, Filmmaker Michelle Parkerson, Artist Hanifah Walidah, Hip-Hop Duo KIN, and Author Fiona Zedde.īoys from Brazil (ITC Entertainment, 1993) Desiring what one man calls “a decent life,” they pursue the drastic measure of having gender reassignment surgery, obtaining the psychiatric note of permission a doctor needs to proceed.īlack is.Black Ain’t (California Newsreel, 1994) These contemporary views are cleverly interwoven with a dramatized love story, set in the 1920s, in which a sultry romance develops between a gorgeous jazz singer and her stylish butch lover.Īttracted to members of the same sex, yet forced to live in the shadows for fear of retribution, some young Iranian men and women are taking the only course legally open to them. Lively interviews feature Black women talking candidly about their sexual and racial identities. Women is a wonderful celebration of the history and culture of Black lesbians. Testimonies from Mexican lesbians and movement leaders give impressions of daily life in their country.
Almost Myself (T Joe Murray Videos, 2006)Īfter finding a most unusual web site that was seeking funds to help reverse a sex change, filmmaker Tom Murray set out on a fascinating cross country journey to explore just a small part of the vastly diverse transgender community.Īnd the March Continues! (Frameline, 1997)Īnd the March Continues combines documentary and narrative forms to present a history of the lesbian movement in Mexico from its origins to the present.