SFTFF: Program 4
Jamie’s Pond
Director: Reid Sandlund
Country: United States
Runtime: 3:30
A lonely naiad discovers a crying human child at the edge of their pond and tries to cheer him up. They soon discover they have more in common than meets the eye.
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Reid Sandlund is the co-founder of the independent production company “Studio Flimpo” and a graduate of the School of Visual Arts. He is available for work as an animator, visual development artist, character designer, or storyboard artist. He also has aspirations of directing for film/TV.
Masisi Wouj
Director: Zé Kielwagen, Marcos Serafim, Steevens Siméon
Country: Haiti
Runtime: 22 minutes
In Haiti, the word masisi is used as a slur on men considered feminine, gay men, trans and non-binary people. In face of prejudice and hostility, many masisi find shelter in the religious context of Vodou. In a series of performances inspired by Vodou and drag, Haitian artist and activist Sanba Yonel pays a queer tribute to the gods. https://www.zekielwagen.art/art/masisi
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Zé Kielwagen is an artist and teacher from Brazil, living and working in the USA.
FERNANDA
Director: Mar Angélica Molina
Country: United States
Runtime: 12 minutes
An angry Latine dyke wants to make the world a better place but can barely keep her own life together. Fer and her friends deconstruct their lives, fuck them up and continue to deconstruct them. https://www.maryangelicamolina.com/fernanda
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Mar Angélica Molina is a writer and director who creates dark, funny, queer stories about seemingly unimportant Latines in extraordinary circumstances. They’ve written for Anne Rice’s MAYFAIR WITCHES (AMC), FANTASY ISLAND (Fox), ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA (Showtime) and PARTY OF FIVE (Freeform). Mar participated in the 2021 AFI Directing Workshop for Women with a short titled FERNANDA. She’s a Tribeca Institute’s 2020 Through Her Lens program fellow. They were selected for the 2018 Sundance Episodic Lab and the 2017 Sundance New Voices Lab. VALENTINA (2018), a short film about a woman with a talking vagina, was licensed by HBO and aired globally. She also wrote, produced and directed the comedy web-series DICHOS (2019). Mar holds an Experimental Film degree from Bard College and MFA in Screenwriting from USC. They were born in the Colombian tropics and grew up in Queens, NY.
Dilating For Maximum Results
Director: Nyala Moon
Country: United States
Runtime: 14:10
A whack, irreverent comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend. www.nyalamoon.com
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NYALA MOON is a filmmaker, writer, and actress of trans experience. In May 2020, Nyala graduated from City College with her MFA in film production. Nyala was also a 2020-2021 QueerArt Film fellow with Tu Me Manques director Rodrigo Bellot as her mentor. She also is a TV writing fellow for Hillman Grad 2021 inaugural class. Nyala’s latest film, “How Not To Date While Trans,” has won audience and best short awards at Inside Out Toronto’s LBGT Film Festival, Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBT Film Festival, Translation Seattle’s 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, and NewFest 22. Nyala is a 2022 Film Fatale trans-directing fellow. In June 2022, Nyala was selected as a 2022 NewFest/Netflix New Voices Filmmaker Grant winner. Her film, “How Not To Date While Trans,” was selected for distribution through Frameline’s New Voices program.
MnM
Director: Twiggy Pucci Garçon
Country: United States
Runtime: 15 minutes
MnM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that prizes gender ‘realness’. https://www.queer-futures.com/mnm
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TWIGGY PUCCI GARÇON (director, she/they) is an activist, creative director, event producer, culture curator, performance artist, and runway trainer. They have collaborated with Gucci, Coach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, GLAAD, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Reebok, and more. Twiggy has worked at True Colors United for nearly a decade, protecting rights for young people experiencing homelessness. They are the Overall Overseer for the Legendary International House of Comme des Garçon, the Chief Ambassador for the Center for Black Equity, and Co-Founder of All Tea, No Shade Productions alongside New York Times Bestselling author George M. Johnson. Twiggy was a featured subject in HBO’s THE OUT LIST (2013), was the co-writer and subject of Sara Jordenö’s award-winning documentary KIKI (Sundance 2016), and served as consultant and runway choreographer on Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-nominated FX series, POSE.
The Barman’s Daughter
Director: Shawna Virago
Country: United States
Runtime: 4 minutes
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SHAWNA VIRAGO is one of the nation’s first openly transgender women to perform and tour nationally, and has performed as an out transwoman since the early 1990’s. Virago is a songwriter celebrated for her striking lyric-based songs. Her songs twist together folk, alt-country and punk. Virago has been profiled online, in print and on radio including Bitch, Louder Than War, No Depression, Paste magazine, on NPR and PBS, and on left-of-the-dial radio. The Advocate named her song “Objectified,” as one of the nation’s top Transgender Anthems. Virago is a published writer and her work appears in several anthologies. She is the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and her films have screened at festivals throughout the world.
Presented as part of San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.
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