[imc-queer] Transgender Film Festival, London

[Mara]

Here's something interesting:

The festival will take place at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, London, UK, 
November 7-9.

Manifesto

Independent, experimental, cutting edge and diverse are just some words 
to describe this year’s London Transgender Film Festival in November 08.
Film is a diverse medium that speaks universally to us all. It is fluid, 
poetic, transitional and has the power to create and express externally 
ourselves in any colour, shape or form.

It’s an art form, it’s a documentary form, it’s a drama form, its 
experimental, it’s just one still image with a voice…or it’s a voice 
with a blank screen, or an image with no sound… it can just be however 
one creates it, sees it, hears it…dreams it… like a visual mirror that 
takes one into other dimensions, beyond the solid physical self… it can 
break down patterns, formulas and create new ones. It is never 
permanent, it is forever changing. In its true form it is limitless, it 
is transient, it is a medium of visual and sound transformations.

This year’s Festival is looking for works of all different styles and 
techniques.
It’s focus is to exhibit content of transgender, intersex, androgyny, 
gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons 
of all natures, all races and cultures, ages and abilities….
Its aim is to increase trans visibility and acknowledgement, question 
the gender binary, to dispel ignorance and demystify stereotypes, unite 
and support a diverse LGBTQI community and celebrate trans spaces and 
their friends.

The festival is also about communication and growth and will screen 
films of dynamic and important themes. It hopes to encourage and 
liberate self expression in independent trans filmmaking in London and 
globally for years to come.

http://transgenderfilmfestival.co.uk/wp/