Trans film news: Paulista, Prodigal Sons |
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Trans depictions in the media continue to improve. Trans actress Maria Clara Spinelli is on the festival circuit right now with Paulista. It premiered earlier this year in Palm Springs and just played the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival. About her character:
She is simply a woman who wants to be loved. “That’s what makes the character so fascinating,” Spinelli said, with the help of a translator. “She is a paradox. The fact is that she’s a transsexual, but she’s the most conservative one in the film. People assume that she would be the flamboyant, overly sexual one, and it is not so. “The fact that she is a transsexual is just one part of her. She is so much more than that.”
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100113/EVENTS01/1130309/A-remarkably-unremarkable-role
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Also, watch for filmmaker Kimberly Reed on Oprah 11 February
http://www.oprah.com/showinfo/The-High-School-Quarterback-Who-Became-a-Lesbian
Kimberly’s highly-recommended documentary ‘Prodigal Sons’ has a theatrical release in March.