Echo Chamber - BFI Flare 22 - Day 11
On our penultimate day of @EchoChamberFP coverage ('Day 11') of 2022's 'BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival' we have three full lengths. Two documentaries, (one sport and one music), and a feature debut!
'I Am the Tigress' is written & directed by due Philipp Fussenegger & Dino Osmanović. Tischa Thomas cuts a beguiling figure in a tight dress, with strawberry blonde wig and enormous biceps. She is about to leave the US to compete in a bodybuilding competition in Romania, accompanied by her jaded but loyal coach. Her extraordinary transformation from overweight mother-of-three to disciplined athlete and dominatrix speaks volumes about the relationship between gender and race, not least because Tischa is neither trans nor queer. Yet everything about her experience is a pointed commentary on how transphobia, racism and gendered violence are intimately linked.
'Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor' is the feature directorial debut from Shelley Thompson who also wrote the screenplay. Dawn MacGinnis (Maya V. Henry), a young transgender woman from Nova Scotia who returns home for her mother's funeral, and tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged father John Andrew (Robb Wells) through working together to restore John Andrew's old broken-down tractor.
'TRAMPS!' is written & directed by Kevin Hegge. Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialize on the streets of East London, England.
Today we have:
I Am the Tigress - Film Still
I Am the Tigress
Watch Review: Here.
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Date: 18th January 2021
BFI Flare 2022 Date: 26th March 2022
BFI Flare 2022 Date: 27th March 2022
Bodies: Film Strand
Theatrical Germany Release Date: 14th April 2022
Director: Philipp Fussenegger, Dino Osmanović
Cast: Tischa Thomas, Steve Scibelli, Edward Zahler, Jasmine Acevedo, Pharaoh Acevedo, Lucciano Acevedo, Indigo Acevedo
Credit: Funfairfilms, sixpackfilm
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Running Time: 80 min
Cert: 18
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor - Poster
Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor
Watch Review: Here.
BFI Flare 2022 Date: 23rd March 2022
Hearts: Film Strand
Director: Shelley Thompson
Cast: Maya V. Henry, Robb Wells, Amy Groening, Reid Price, Breton Lalama, Richie Wilcox, Francine Deschepper, Hans Böggild, Taylor Olson
Credit: Picture Plant, Rusty Tractor, New Dawn Films Ltd
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 90 min
Cert: 15
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Twitter: @DawnAndHerDad
Facebook: Here.
Instagram: @dawndadtractormovie
TRAMPS! - Poster
TRAMPS!
Watch Review: Here.
BFI Flare 2022 Date: 26th March 2022
Director: Kevin Hegge
Cast: Judy Blame, Duggie Fields, Princess Julia, John Maybury, Philip Salmon, Mark Moore, Christine Binnie, Scarlett Cannon, Sue Carrington, Lee Child, Michael Costiff, Andrew Czezowski
Credit: Low End
Genre: Documentary, Music
Running Time: 104 min
Cert: 15
BFI Flare Festival 2022
Festival Date: 16th - 27th March 2022
From Wednesday 16th to Sunday 27th March 2022, join the BFI online for 12 days of the best new LGBTIQ+ cinema, free short films, events, and more.
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*(Music)
'Turn The Beat Around' by Gloria Estefan - 1994