The 2012 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival was a formidable success November 8-11 at CounterPulse!  All events were standing-room only: this year’s SFTFF drew the largest audiences of ANY event in CounterPulse's history!

We opened with a bang on Thursday night with a live performance extravaganza and presented powerful shorts programs throughout the weekend. Congratulations to the 60+ transgender filmmakers whose films we presented!

RECORD-BREAKING CROWDS AT SFTFF 2012

Congratulations to everyone on this major success – we're already looking forward to the 2013 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival!  If you're interested in submitting your film to next year's SFTFF, if you want to volunteer, donate or get involved, please join our email list and be the first to receive news of the 2013 Festival.

SFTFF GIVES LOVE AND THANKS TO: San Francisco Transgender Film Festival Director Shawna Virago, SFTFF Website Director Bobby Cheung, SFTFF Graphic Designer Den Legaspie, our co-presenter Fresh Meat Productions – and Fresh Meat Productions Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, Fresh Meat Productions’ Production Coordinator Eric Garcia, all the wonderful folks at CounterPulse and to OUR FUNDERS: Fresh Meat Productions, the Queer Cultural Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery and the Zellerbach Family Foundation!

SUNDAY NIGHT FILMMAKER PANEL

www.sftff.org
November 8-11, 2012  San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) seeks entries for its 2012 Festival (November 8-11, 2012).  SFTFF accepts narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films and music videos. All work should be created by transgender/genderqueer people. All work submitted this year must be 20 minutes or under. Please only submit one film.

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival was founded in 1997 as North America’s first transgender film festival. We exhibit groundbreaking, provocative, outrageous, courageous, moving and innovative works that show the complexity of lives lived on the transgender spectrum. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: September 5, 2011
Early submissions are encouraged.
There is no entry fee.

FORMAT
Please send your submissions on DVD only (North American format).
Please note: If your film is accepted, you may be asked to send us your film in Quicktime format.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM

1. Download and complete the Entry Form and print a copy.
2. Send your Entry Form and one copy of your work (DVD only) to:

SF Transgender Film Festival
c/o Fresh Meat Productions
P.O. Box 460670
San Francisco, CA
94146-0670
USA

3. Email a 300-dpi (high resolution) JPG image for your film to sftransfilm@gmail.com.
4. We will email you notification when your submission has been received.

GUIDELINES

1. Please include all required materials when submitting your entry – don’t forget to email us a JPG for press purposes (All work must be 20 minutes or less! No exceptions).
2. We cannot return any submitted materials.
3. We will notify you if your work is accepted by September 10th.
4. Once a film is submitted, it may not be withdrawn for any reason.
5. For questions or more information, contact: sftransfilm@gmail.com.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
The Festival will take place at CounterPulse in San Francisco, November 8-11. For venue, program and schedule information, visit our Calendar page in September. In the meantime, Join our email list to receive updates.

PERFORMANCES Thursday, November 8 @ 8pm FILM PROGRAMS Friday November 9 @ 8pm: Program I Saturday November 10 @ 8pm: Program II Sunday November 11 @ 7pm: Program III All events at:   CounterPulse (1310 Mission Street at 9th Street, SF) [map] This venue is wheelchair-accessible. Admission:   $12-15 sliding scale Tickets:   http://sftff.eventbrite.com/

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) announces its spectacular 2012 Festival – a stellar collection of transgender short films with enticing tales of defiance, bullying, relationships, sex, humor, romance and ZOMBIES! Get your tickets early: last year’s Festival broke the theater’s all-time audience record!

This year, after 10 sold-out Festivals, SFTFF is expanding to our biggest lineup ever – 4 nights of spectacular programs and events. To celebrate our expansion, the 2012 Festival will feature internationally award-winning work from more than a dozen countries – including Myanmar, Bolivia, Canada, France, Germany, England and The Netherlands. Don’t miss our opening night performance extravaganza featuring a who’s-who of Bay Area trans and genderqueer performers on Thursday November 8! The 2012 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions.

Thursday November 8 @ 8pm: Opening Night Performance Extravaganza!
An jam-packed evening of live performances featuring the Bay Area’s hottest trans performers: Annie Danger, Shawna Virago, K.B. TuffNStuff, Star Amerasu, Dana Morrigan, Eli Conley & The Transcendence Gospel Choir! Buy tickets now…

Friday-Sunday November 9-11: Film Programs 
The Festival continues with three nights of award-winning transgender cinema – three dynamic programs of local, national and international short films and videos by transgender and gender variant artists from around the world.

Friday November 9 @ 8pm:
SHORT FILMS – PROGRAM I: A Night In the Woods
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Saturday Nov 10 @ 8pm:
SHORT FILMS – PROGRAM II: Got Monsters?
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Sunday Nov 11 @ 7pm:
SHORT FILMS – PROGRAM III: Find Each Other
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The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) announces its spectacular 10th Anniversary film festival with a stellar collection of transgender short films with enticing tales of defiance, bullying, relationships, sex, humor, enchantment and romance. Get your tickets early: last year’s Festival broke the theater’s all-time audience record!

This year’s Festival features an award-winning mix of international films from countries including Thailand, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Canada, Singapore, Germany, Scotland, England, South Africa and The Netherlands.

Thursday November 3 (8pm): Performance Extravaganza
The Festival opens with a special Tenth Anniversary Performance Extravaganza! Featuring performances by Annie Danger, D’Lo, Natsha Muse, Storm Miguel Florez, Butch Tap, Kentucky Fried Woman, Shawna Virago, Eli Conley, Geppetta and Andrea Horne – hosted by Fairy Butch!

Friday-Saturday November 4 & 5 (8pm): Film Programs
The Festival continues Friday and Saturday November 4 and 5 with the weekend Film Festival -  two dynamic programs of local, national and international short films and videos by transgender and gender variant artists from around the world.

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FILM PROGRAM DETAILS:

Friday November 4: PROGRAM I – Plays Well With Others

Love and Other Red Spot Specials
Lauren Anderson (Australia)
In the universe, on Earth, in Australia, there is a small town. In the small town there are: 9,684 residents, one supermarket, six sets of traffic lights and one shoplifting transperson on an extravagant quest for love.

Katie and Kaden
KS Stevens (USA)
A comedic film about two people who connect after an intimate encounter. Stars Mr. Transman 2010, Kit Yan. CA premiere.

Ring frei
Tom Weller (Germany)
A transman prepares for his first fight as a boxer, but must first fight discrimination in the gym’s warm-up area. CA premiere.

Slippery
Sandra Alland (Scotland)
An irreverent and playful meditation on the slippery nature of overused words. Your kitchen will never smell the same. US premiere.

So Pomo
Kalil Cohen (USA)
So Pomo is for the PoMoSexual in all of us. A queer, post-modern, surreal romp of a music video, featuring Metahuman.

bath of Dionysus
yozmit and jean sebastien berard (USA)
Western mythological images reinterpreted through an eastern shamanistic point of view displaying abstract aspect of gender, sexuality and identity. A personal dream diary/music video. CA premiere.

Butch Tits
Jen Crothers (Canada)
Butch women discuss the sometimes complicated relationship they have with their breasts.

Changing House
Z.A. Martohardjono (USA)
Rusty and Chelsea are a transgender lesbian couple who devoted 15 years to making their Brooklyn home a communal living space for transgender women in need and transgender civil rights organizers, including Stonewall legend Sylvia Rivera.

Make a Mate
Jennifer Jordan Day (USA)
A lonely woman finds a magical shop where she can craft an ideal mate.

Death of My Daughter
Leon Mostovoy (USA)
This multi-media project represents the burial, or putting to rest, of the gender roles that parents and society impose, and illustrates the metamorphosis of several trans men.

Present Continuous
Bo Luengsuraswat (USA)
This experimental work questions the connotations of the mundane everyday.

Roommates
Caitlin George Parker (USA)
In this playful romp, Pablo struggles with having a crush on his roommate.

Fe-Mal-Ity
Abby Lambert (Canada)
In an attempt to under her gender identity, a woman allows her experience with another woman to induce the transformation. World premiere.

Loop Planes
Robin Wilby (USA)
13-year-old Nick lives with his dad at an amusement park. But today, with the arrival of his mother and a pink-haired girl named Katie, Nick is in for the ride of his life.

Robinhood Is So Gay
Broch Bender and Oscar McNary (USA)
Based on the 13th century ballad “Robin Hood and the Sodomites,” this film reasserts this heroic icon’s faggotry.

Saturday November 5: PROGRAM II – Unexpected Encounters

Lek And The Water Boy
Lasse Nielsen (Thailand)
This short explores the sexual awakening and fantasies of an adolescent in their mother’s shop.

Joan
Jessica MacCormack and Rae Spoon (Canada)
This music video confronts the violence transpeople face in their daily lives and features portraits of gender queers from around the world. Bay Area premiere.

The Lusty Gypsies
Nikki Lee Taylor (USA)
On the stage it’s glitz and glitter, but backstage the gloves come off: the choices and differences between Drag and Transsexual performers are explored. CA premiere.

Living Together Apart
Corrine Bot (Netherlands)
An experimental work exploring identity: a boy and a girl have breakfast, both ignoring each other, both incomplete portraits of a self.

lili longed to feel her insides
Adelaide Windsome and Wren Warner (USA)
A short fairy tale inspired by the life of pioneering trans woman Lili Elbe, who came out in the 1920’s and died of complications after a gender reassignment surgery that would have “enabled her to become a mother.”

Mais ou Menos (More or Less)
Alexander Antunes Siqueira (Brazil)
Teenager Ivo is constantly bullied by Sandro, his high school classmate. Their troubled relationship seems irreconcilable until an unexpected encounter changes everything. CA premiere.

The Panty Man
Camrin Pitts (USA)
The true story of a man’s obsession with female panties and his denial of his sexuality. Stars LA performance artist Dale Madison and Shangela Laquifa Wadley of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Bay Area premiere.

Dayzee Dee’s Dazzling Drag Balls
Joe E. Jeffreys (USA)
Rare super 8mm film of pre-Stonewall Brooklyn drag balls plus contemporary interviews with early drag ball organizers. CA premiere.

Help Wanted
Truc Thanh Nguyen (USA)
In the heat of desperate times, HELP WANTED doesn’t apply to a genderqueer Asian looking for employment.

The Girl Bunnies. BIG TREE
Francoise Doherty (Canada)
Mimi and her chainsaw accidentally slice through a really cute bunny’s tree. With the help of a hockey stick, two hockey girls and a rather big deer, Mimi figures out her heart.

Guf.bait.body
Emil Ray and Ronny Almog (Israel)
A queer poem to body, soul and homeland.

Perception
Sam Berliner (USA)
An animation of an introspective poem. How does one’s own perception of self differ from how one is seen by the rest of the world?

Transsexual Dominatrix
Shawna Virago (USA)
Folk-punk princess Shawna Virago wails on her six-string and doles out lyrical pleasure-pain in this new leather anthem.

TRANSITIONS #NEWYORKCITY
Nadine Hutton (New York City/South Africa)
An experimental documentary exploring queer artistry and how a community of artists navigates creation and identity as “bodies of work.” 

James Dean
Lucy Asten Elliott (UK)
A day out with the family takes an unexpected turn when young Alex is forced to share a secret.

The 2011 SFTFF is supported by Fresh Meat Productions, the Queer Cultural Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions.

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTGFF) seeks entries for its 2011 Festival (November 3-5, 2011).  SFTGFF accepts narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films and music videos. All work should be created by transgender/genderqueer people. All work submitted this year must be 20 minutes or under. Please only submit one film.

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, aka Tranny Fest, was founded in 1997 as the nation’s first transgender film festival. In the 14 years since, we have exhibited groundbreaking, provocative, outrageous, courageous, moving and innovative works that show the complexity of lives lived on the transgender/ genderqueer spectrum. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: September 1, 2011
Early submissions are encouraged.
There is no entry fee.

FORMAT
We will exhibit works only on DVD (North American format).

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM

1. Download and complete the Entry Form and print a copy.
2. Send your Entry Form and one copy of your work (DVD only) to:

SF Transgender Film Festival
c/o Fresh Meat Productions
P.O. Box 460670
San Francisco, CA
94146-0670
USA

3. Email a 300-dpi (high resolution) JPG image for your film to freshmeatinfo@gmail.com.
4. We will email you notification when your submission has been received.

GUIDELINES

1. Please include all required materials when submitting your entry – don’t forget to email us a JPG for press purposes (All work must be 20 minutes or less! No exceptions).
2. We cannot return any submitted materials.
3. We will notify you if your work is accepted by September 10th.
4. Once a film is submitted, it may not be withdrawn for any reason.
5. For questions or more information, contact: freshmeatinfo@gmail.com.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
For venue, program and schedule information, visit our Calendar page in September. In the meantime, Join our email list to receive updates.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Tranny Fest (San Francisco Transgender Film Festival) returns this November and for the first time, advance tickets will be available for this very popular event.

Thursday November 4 at 8pm – TRANNY FEST LIVE!
The Festival opens with a performance extravaganza featuring performances by ThiswayThatway, Psychobabble, Butch Tap, StormMiguel Florez, Natasha Muse, Landa Lakes, Amir Rabiyah and Shawna Virago.

The Festival continues Friday and Saturday November 5 and 6 with the weekend FILM FESTIVAL –  two dynamic programs of local, national and international short films and videos by transgender and gender variant artists.

Friday November 5 at 8pm – FILM PROGRAM ONE: Transgender Verite
This program of slice-of-life shorts includes Blink by Silas Howard, The 911 Salon featuring Princess Kennedy by Andy Bydalek, Ethyl Eichenberger’s “Women Who Survive” by Joe E. Jeffreys, Defloweredchild by aryn zev, I Am The Art Scene by James Diamond, Rx (work in progress) by Jules Shendelman, The Next Gender Nation by Kalil Cohen, Reproduction by Vika Kirchenbauer, Fale and Memale Created He Them by Emil Ray and Ronny Almog, Welfare Aides by Gio, Spiral Transition by Ewan Duarte, Remember Me In Red by Hector Ceballos, Monster in the Closet by Sarah Rotella, Face For Sale: Bitch Bitch Bitch by Deb Simone and Chris by Don Bapst.

Saturday November 6 at 8pm – FILM PROGRAM TWO: Tutus Today, Tomorrow Boxers!
This program of smart and saucy shorts includes Crash featuring Katastrophe by Jed Bell, I Have to Change to Stay the Same by Mijke van der Zee, EZ Heeb by Ali Cotterill starring Athens Boys Choir, Little Girl by Aarin Burch featuring Josh Klipp, Papal Brokendance by Marie Losier starring Genesis P-Orridge, Above Deliverance by Teresa Moore, That Picture by Mandy Romero, Butch/Femme by Viva Soffian, Gillian by Martin Rawlings-Fein, Getting Off by J Aguilar and Meliza Banales, Genderbusters by Sam Berliner, Tranny Roadshow 2010 by StormMiguel Florez and Senorita by Vincent Sandoval.

Tranny Fest is Directed by Shawna Virago and co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions. Tranny Fest 2010 is supported by Fresh Meat Productions, the Queer Cultural Center, Rainbow Grocery and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Tranny Fest transgender film festival returns this November with two evenings of short films and videos and a one-night-only performance event. Co-presented with Fresh Meat Productions, Tranny Fest proves it’s not always about size: all films this year are 10 minutes or less. Tickets are only available at the door and seating is limited – make sure to arrive early. Info at: www.freshmeatproductions.org.

Tranny Fest was founded in 1997 and was the nation’s first transgender/genderqueer film festival. In the 12 years since, Tranny Fest has exhibited groundbreaking, provocative, outrageous, courageous, moving and innovative works that show the complexity of lives lived on the transgender/genderqueer spectrum. Tranny Fest Director: Shawna Virago.

NOVEMBER 5: TRANNY FEST LIVE!

Award-winning modern dance, maverick performance artists, steamy burlesque and kink chasing rock n’ roll adventurers collide in this one-night-only performance event. Featuring Sean Dorsey Dance, King TuffNStuff, Chan Dynasty, StormMiguel Florez, Shawna Virago and The Rice Kings. Emceed by the legendary Fairy Butch. Seating is limited for this one-night-only event – come early!

NOVEMBER 6: TRANNY FEST FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM 1
R IS FOR REVOLUTION

R is for Revolution is a collection of short films that obliterate the two-party gender system. Includes a look at queer farmers, animated trannies, stereotypes that tickle our funnybone, the Sent(a)mental Project, 1960s female impersonation glamour, music videos, the horror of Hollywood, the glory of beards, surveillance and racism in our cities and borders, and a joyous DIY-anthem against street harassment. Featuring:

• Dorian: A Picture (Directed by Joe E. Jeffreys)
• The Perfect Fit (Directed by Martin Rawlings-Fein)
• Out Here: A Queer Farmer Film Project (Directed by Jonah Mossberg)
• Kaden Later (Directed by Harriet Storm)
• A Guy Named Joe (Directed by Joshua Klipp)
• Equal+Opposite (Directed by Rahne Alexander)
• Color Watch (Directed by Jillian Soto)
• FMB (Directed by Maple Rabbit)
• Sent(A)Mental Project: A Memorial to GLBTIQA Suicides (Directed by Dylan Scholinski)
• Lexie Cannes: Transition Resistion (Directed by Tom Bertling)
• Big Deal (Directed by Hilary Goldberg)

NOVEMBER 7: TRANNY FEST FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2
G IS FOR GLITTER

G is for Glitter is a shorts program exploring sex, love and rock n’ roll (this program is 18+). Includes the Antony and the Johnsons music video censored in North America – directed by The Wachowski Brothers and choreographed by Fresh Meat Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, the Trannywood boys back with more hot trannyfag action, naughty cooking lessons, music videos, (very) public performance art, lesbian hookups, and dancing defiance. Featuring:

• Evil Auntie’s Exotic Erotic Wedding Cupcakes (Directed by Leslie Streit)
• T4-2 (Directed by Allegra Hirschman & Shellie Citron)
• JEmAncipatioN (Directed by Jean Franco)
• Misadventures of Pussy Boy: Sick (Directed by Alec Butler)
• !smileyfaceheart (Directed by Jai Arun Ravine)
• 3 Hour Man (Directed by TuffNStuff)
• Line of Sight (Directed by Charles Lofton and Elizabeth Steinbock)
• Hustle (Directed by Shawna Virago)
• Epilepsy is Dancing (Directed by the Wachowski Brothers)
• Couch Surfers 2: Trans Men In Action (Directed by Ken Rowe)
• Lexie Cannes: Transitional Love (Directed by Tom Bertling)
• Shameless (Directed by Ask Holmen)

ACCESS NOTE: Mama Calizo’s has wheelchair access via a rear entrance elevator. Ushers will be available to accompany audience members who use wheelchairs or who need elevator access into the venue – come to the front door for info/usher assistance. Email freshmeatinfo(at)gmail.com with any questions or for more info.

Don’t miss this one-night-only special event! Tranny Fest has been invited by Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to host an evening of trans and queer performance.

Trannies take over Yerba Buena! Curated by Tranny Fest, TRANNY NOISE features some of the Bay Area’s leading trans and genderqueer artists including Storm Florez, Landa Lakes, Josh Klipp, Butch Tap and Shawna Virago.

Tranny Fest is the nation’s first transgender/genderqueer performance and film festival. This year’s Festival takes place November 5-7.

Saturday June 20th at 4:30pm: Diagnosing Difference directed by Annalise Ophelian at the Victoria Theater 2961 16th Street, SF CA.

How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? Find out when thirteen transgender, transsexual, and genderqueer individuals explore the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis on their lives and communities. Diagnosing Difference is a vivid, humanizing, critical, and moving examination of the GID diagnosis that is both educational and experiential.

Sunday June 21st at 1:30pm: Maggots and Men directed by Cary Cronenwett

Maggots and Men, an experimental historical narrative set in post-revolutionary Russia , re-tells the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with a subtext of gender anarchy. At the Castro Theater 429 Castro Street , SF CA

The 6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival!
May 30th – June 7th 2009
Info.: www.sexworkerfest.com (415)751-1659

For more information please visit: www.qwocmap.org.