BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.10.2//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13055@thedccenter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T213000 DTSTAMP:20211008T182722Z URL:https://thedccenter.org/events/visiting-filmmakers-series-lgbtq-resour ces-center-and-women-and-gender-studies-present-disclosure-with-sam-feder- and-stacy-goldate/ SUMMARY:Visiting Filmmakers Series\, LGBTQ+ Resources Center\, and Women an d Gender Studies present: Disclosure with Sam Feder and Stacy Goldate DESCRIPTION:HYBRID EVENT: In person and online. \n\n\nDisclosure is an un precedented\, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and telev ision\, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures o ur deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives\, including Laverne Cox\, Lilly Wachowski\, Yance Ford\, Mj Rodriguez\, Jami e Clayton\, and Chaz Bono\, share their reactions and resistance to some o f Hollywood’s most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914)\, Dog Day Afternoon\, The Crying Game\, and Boys Don’ t Cry\, and with shows like The Jeffersons\, The L-Word\, and Pose\, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing\, yet also evolving\, complex \, and sometimes humorous.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen\, society’s beliefs\, and the reality of trans lives. Reframing familiar scenes and ic onic characters in a new light\, director Sam Feder invites viewers to con front unexamined assumptions\, and shows how what once captured the Americ an imagination now elicit new feelings. Disclosure provokes a startling r evolution in how we see and understand trans people.\n\n\n\n\n\nDirector's statement:\n\n"When the now-controversial Time magazine cover story\, “The Transgender Tipping Point\,” hit the newsstands in June 2014\, tr ans people had barely been acknowledged in the mainstream media\, let alon e celebrated. At first\, I was thrilled. Don’t we all need to be seen?\n \n"But then\, I became concerned—because whenever a marginalized communi ty gets mainstream attention\, backlash ensues. Furthermore\, what did thi s “tipping point” even mean? Trans people were still (and continue to be) disproportionately underemployed\, lack access to affordable housing a nd health care\, and face higher rates of hate crimes. The murder of trans women was becoming an epidemic\, and the rate of suicide among trans men was surging. And this was all before the Trump administration began target ing the rights of trans people.\n\n"I wanted to understand why the mainstr eam media was declaring a change for a community it had little connection to\, why now\, and what led to this new wave of trans visibility. I decide d to create a history of trans representation from the perspective of this unique moment. With no written source dedicated to the subject\, I began my research with nearly 100 oral histories with trans people who work in f ilm and TV. I collected over 1000 film/TV clips from over 100 years of cha racters who traverse gender expectations. While most of these depictions d o not reflect current definitions of trans people\, they have informed how many of us have learned to think of ourselves."\n\n\n\nSam Feder is a Pe abody Award nominated film director. Cited by Indiewire as one of the “e xciting trans filmmakers shaking up Hollywood”\, Sam’s films explore t he intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race\, class \, and gender. Sam’s filmmaking practice models inclusion and equity in the industry.\nSam’s films have been programmed by Sundance Film Festiva l\, Tribeca Film Festival\, CPH:DOX\, MOMA PS-1\, The British Film Institu te\, The Hammer Museum\, and in hundreds of film festivals around the worl d. The Netflix Original Documentary\, DISCLOSURE (Sundance\, 2020) is an u nprecedented\, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and tele vision\, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER (2014)\, a portrait of trans icon Kate Bornstein\, was named one o f the best documentaries of 2014 by The Advocate\, won the James Aronson A ward for Social Justice Journalism\, and multiple best feature film awards . Sam’s work has been supported by Ford/JustFilms\, Fork Films\, Califor nia Humanities\, The Jerome Foundation\, Perspective Fund\, Threshold\, IF P Film Week\, Good Pitch USA/Doc Society\, MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo ar tist residency.\nStacy Goldate began her career in journalism when she cr eated Vanderbilt University’s first radio news program\, nominated for a n award by The Society of Professional Journalists. She went on to direct the award-winning documentary “Lucy Barks!” about Nashville’s former all-ages punk music venue\, Lucy’s Record Shop. In Chicago\, she worked for Women in the Director’s Chair and helped develop an after school me dia arts program for LGBTQ youth through The Video Machete Collective. She was named one of Chicago’s “30 Under 30” by the Windy City Times an d received her MFA in Film/Video at The School of the Art Institute of Chi cago where she directed the sci-fi film "Dominatrix Waitrix" and a series of short films and video installations that screened worldwide\, including The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art\, Outfest LA\, and The London LGBT Q Film Festival. Stacy is now based in Los Angeles where she directs\, pro duces\, and edits documentaries. She and Craig A. Colton formed Deranged S quirrel Productions and co-directed the feature documentary "A Greater Soc iety." She has also edited many documentaries for film and tv including ep isodes from “The Nineties\,” “1968: The Year That Changed America\, ” and “The 2000s” for CNN and Executive Producers Tom Hanks\, Gary G oetzman and Mark Herzog. She co-edited World of Wonder’s Emmy-winning fi lm “Out of Iraq” and the award-winning feature documentary\, “hillbi lly” directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin.\n\n\n\nMore Information\nI n-person registration: Mason ID holders only.\nThe screening in the Johnso n Center Cinema begins at 7pm\, followed by discussion with filmmakers.\n\ nInfo on vaccination policy. \n\n\n\n\nOnline registration for all (Maso n ID holders and general public).\nThe online discussion begins at 8:45pm. Please view Disclosure on Netflix before the event.\n\n\n\n\nDisclosure discussion guide\n \;\n\nA George Mason University Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thedccenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/ 10/Disclosure-GW.jpg CATEGORIES:Black,Center Arts,People of Color,Trans END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR