2010 Summer Film Series

To celebrate diversity and the Assume Nothing exhibition Waikato Museum presents the 2010 Summer Film Series.

Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre. Films are free but a donation is appreciated.

Wednesday 20 January, 7.00pm

Digital Stories, 8 mins
New Zealand, 2009
Sarah and Cindy have used digial media to tell the stories of their transition from male to female.

TransArt, 10 mins
Dir: Caitlyn Drinkwater, New Zealand, 2008
Kestin Stewart and thomas Hamilton have two things in common. They are both artists and they are both transsexual men. TransArt follows them both as tell their stories about their transitions and their developing art forms.

She's a boy I knew, 70 mins
Dir: Gwen Haworth, Canada, 2007
Using archival footage and animation, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife.

Friday 22 January, 7.00pm

One in 2000, 26 mins
Dir: Ajae Clearway, 2006
One in 2000 is a documentary that explores the lives of people who are born with sex anatomy that doesn't fit into standard "male" or "female" categories.

XXY, 86 mins
Dir: Lucia Puenza, 2007. Spanish with English subtitles.
This poignant film explores the painful search for gender identity of Alex, a 15 year old intersex teenager.
Image from film.
R16 - Contains offensive language and sexual themes.

Wednesday 27 January, 7.00pm

Bi the way, 93 mins
Dir: Josephine Decker & Brittany Blockman, 2008
Journeying through the sexual landscape of America, Bi the way investigates the latest scientific reports and social opinions on bisexuality while following fice members of the emerging "whatever generation" - teens and twenty-somethings who are ushering in a whole new sexual revolution.

Event listed by Surrey Jackson

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