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Opening Night Film: Southern Comfort
The NTGF will open its festival with the Dutch premiere of
Southern Comfort from director Kate Davis, winner of the Best
Documentary Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2001. This
documentary on the FTM Robert Eads shows the hostile medical
environment that refuses to treat his ovarian cancer, all
because medical professionals are in fear losing their reputation
under the repressive climate of Robert's homeland.
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Dutch Premieres
Apart from the Opening Night Film, many other films are presented
for the first time to the Dutch audience, like the documentary
A Boy Named Sue from director Julie Wyman, the first film
which captures six years of the transformation process of
a ftm on screen. Furthermore: the visual extravaganza of Shu
Lea Cheang's Sci-Fi Porn I.K.U., the film version of Banana
Yoshimoto's bestseller Kitchen, and the documentary Paradise
Bent about the social importance of boys raised as girls on
Samoa.
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Special focus on Southeast Asia: Asian Expressions
This festival focus on representations of transgenders from
the Southeast Asian region, showing comedies, documentary,
martial arts films and science fiction film, ranging from
Singapore to Hong Kong and Japan. We will be showing Stanley
Kwan's personal documentary Yang + Yin: Gender in Chinese
Cinema, the Japanese cult classic Summer Vacation: 1999, a
story that deals with Japanese straight women's fascination
for (ideal) gay love, and the ultimate feel good movie Forever
Fever from Singapore, an entertaining mixture of Saturday
Night Fever and Bruce Lee.
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Lectures: Cheryl Chase, Susan Stryker and on Drag Queen
Contests
Intersexuality is a diverse condition that is still unknown
outside the medical discourse. Intersex are people who, according
to the same medical discourse, are born with an anomaly in
the reproductive system. Many of them have undergone medical
treatments to 'correct' that anomaly, leaving them with a
sense of shame and secrecy.
Cheryl Chase, the founder of Intersex Society of North
America (ISNA), will give a lecture on this often misinformed
subject of intersexuality on Sunday October 7th at 4pm. The
ISNA was awarded the Human Rights Award by the The International
Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission for their path breaking
activities for the rights of intersex in the U.S. Cheryl Chase
will talk about the political activities of ISNA. After her
talk, Cheryl Chase will be joined by Del LaGrace Volcano in
the discussion with the audience.
Transgender-activist,
historian and academic Susan Stryker will give a lecture
on Building a Transgender Community, based on her activities
for GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco on Thursday October
4th at 8pm. She will show clips from her work-in-progress
documentary on the very beginning of transgender activism
at the Bay Area, Looking For Compton's. Victor Silverman,
co-director of Looking for Compton's will join Susan Stryker
during the lecture.
The third lecture of the festival will focus on Drag Queen
Contests on Friday October 5th at 8pm. The audience will
be given a glimpse of the world of drag queen contests, using
rare footages dating back from the 1960's, ranging from countries
from Italy to Thailand and the Philippines.
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Special Shorts Programmes on FTM's and Intersex
The festival offers special programmes on two groups within
the community that suffer from insufficient visibility in
the media: the FTM programme and the Intersex programme. The
FTM programme offers divers short films with topics on FTM's
life, including Manhood, Straightboy Lessons and A Boy Named
Sue; the Intersex Programme shows Cheryl Chase's 1997 classic
documentary Hermaphrodites Speak and Del LaGrace Volcano and
Cara Lavan's Journey Intersex.
The third shorts programme, T-Shorts, is a selection of films
ranging from traditional documentary to experimental, satire
and the funny family portrait No Dumb Questions, the winner
of the Audience Award at the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival 2001. !
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Audience Favourites and Surprise Film
On Sunday October 7th, the two most popular programmes will
be repeated at the so-called Audience Favourites screenings
at 4pm and 8pm. Check the festival website for the latest
updates. The festival's Closing Night Film is a sneak preview
from Southeast Asia; a comedy with a tolerant message.
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Photo exhibition of Wilma van de Hel
During the festival, photos of Wilma van de Hel will be displayed
at the foyer of de Balie.
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