SUNDAY - PART 2

STILL BLACK

UNCA TRANS XXY

THE WORLD UNSEEN XXY

SUNDAY

VOODOO WOMAN

TO EACH HER OWN VOODOO WOMAN

Unca Trans

Directors: Allyson Mitchell, Christina Zeidler 5 Minutes, Canada

Set in an agrarian future, the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000’s.

Still Black: A Portrait Of Black Transmen

Director: Kortney Ryan Ziegler 77 Minutes, USA

DIRECTOR PRESENT

Still Black: A Portrait Of Black Transmen, is an alternative feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.

The Bond

Director: Michael T. Connell 6 Minutes, USA

This is a film about the bond between a parent and a male to female transgender child, from the perspective of the parent.

XXY

Director: Lucia Puenzo 91 Minutes, Argentina Spanish English Subtitles

For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Ines Efron,) who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son Álvaro (Martin Piroyanski.) Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face their worst fears.

Voodoo Woman

Director: Carolina Valencia DIRECTOR PRESENT 60 Minutes, Canada In English and Spanish with English subtitles

Independent filmmaker Carlos Valencia has a date with destiny. While searching for new film ideas, Carlos turns to the Island of Cuba, to document the underground worlds of hip-hop music and gay life. Shooting in Cuba he encounters the Afro-Caribbean religion known as Santeria. Shrouded in secrecy and unaltered centuries-old traditions, Carlos and his camera enter filmmaker heaven as they gain unprecedented access into the occult faith's world of animal sacrifices (graphically depicted) and speaking in tongues.

While on the road to becoming a babalawoo or high priest, Carlos discovers that while he may be fine with his androgynous appearance, the Santeria gods are not, and think it's time that he do something about it. Soon Carlos is returning home to Canada where he must face some truths he has been suppressing for close to fifty years.

Unlike any other ethnographic or trans documentary you may have ever seen, Voodoo Woman is brave, original and revealing. Ultimately the film is a journey, predicted by the gods, that Carlos Valencia had to make to become Carolina, the woman he always dreamt he would be.

Director/subject Carolina Valencia will attend the screening to discuss the film with the audience.

Carolina Valencia is a director, producer, animator and editor. Born in Colombia, South America, she migrated to Canada in the mid-1970s and later attended Sheridan College where she studied illustration. Previous films include The Two Cubas (2006), Cuba: A Place of Our Own, and Havana Hip Hop, among others.