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First-time filmmaker Kate Turinski had her AGLIFF premiere tonight with her documentary SISSYBOY after receiving much attention after her SXSW screening.  The film follows the outrageous gender-bending performance art/drag troupe in their last year of existence. Founded by Mark “Zebra” Thomas, the troupe held monthly shows in Portland, exposing the monsters in society by becoming the monsters themselves in their own performances. Each of the twelve members created their own eccentric personas. It’s hairspray, glamour, tattoos, bad makeup, and booze all in the name of satire and bad taste. John Waters would be proud. 

See the TRAILER, and get a glimpse into a different style of drag that would make Liza (with a Z!) faint and make Courtney Love blush.

The screening tonight was sponsored by L Style G Style Magazine and SXSW.

Download the Press Release (pdf)

Launch Party with the film’s Director Sebastian Cordoba to Follow

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time: Screening 7pm, Launch Party 8:30pm
Place: The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Spirit Theatre
Admission: $5

This screening is free for Members of aGLIFF, AFF, AFS, Cine las Americas, and TSHM.

aGLIFF will begin its Monthly Screening series with THROUGH THICK AND THIN, a documentary by filmmaker Sebastian Cordoba, who will be in attendance. This screening is also a collaboration with the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Altered Lives: An Immigration Film Series.

THROUGH THICK AND THIN follows the extraordinary stories of seven bi-national gay and lesbian couples whose lives are dramatically affected by the current state of immigration laws in the United States. Cordoba intimately captures integral moments of each of the couples as they struggle to stay together at whatever cost, sometimes demonstrating that love does not conquer all.

For some couples, this means immigrating to a different country, while others try to maintain a semblance of normalcy by commuting between distant places overseas. And, for some of them, in which the foreign partner is already illegal, they try to keep things as they are while avoiding the scrutiny of immigration enforcement.

The immigration rights issue is a sensitive and personal one to the director, Sebastian Cordoba, who will join us to discuss the film and his own experience as he was in a binational relationship with an American citizen and has struggled with this very issue first-hand. In fact, he was able to maintain a working visa status by producing this documentary.

aGLIFF will host a launch party for its Monthly Screening Series as well as the launch of the Texas State History Museum’s Immigration Film Series outside the Spirit Theatre following the screening.

Call for Documentary & Narrative Features

A National Program Connecting Mentors and Projects Before They are Submitted to Festivals

Documentary Lab Submission Deadline: February 13

Narrative Lab Submission Deadline: April 17

Led by experienced producers, the Labs assist filmmakers in tackling the creative challenges of completing their modestly-budgeted, independently produced films - getting a leg-up before industry exposure. The five-day mentorship program in NYC challenges filmmakers to realize the full potential of their footage and stories with ongoing dynamic feedback and advice on technical & creative issues and distribution methods. The Labs are for first-time, narrative & documentary feature directors in the late stages of post-production.

For more info & application: http://labs.ifp.org