Film
Watch Hermaphrodites Speak! the first intersex documentary
“The problem is not with the [intersex] child, the problem is with the attitudes towards the child.” — Hida Viloria, 1996 “I know, from my experience of my very own body… the really wonderful sensitivity that I had before surgery, in terms of genital sensation, and the tremendous orgasms that I had before… so it’s…
Read MoreE.D. Hida Viloria in the Groundbreaking GENDERNAUTS
Gendernauts is the groundbreaking, multi award-winning 1999 documentary by German filmmaker Monika Truet, which shows us a group of artists in San Francisco who live between the poles of conventional gender identities, including ICE’s own Hida Viloria. The New York Times review of the film, after it’s February 4, 2000, United States premiere at Manhattan’s Cinema Village, had this…
Read MoreIntersex Doc Orchids: My Intersex Adventure screens at film fest
We thank and congratulate Phoebe Hart for making this fantastic documentary film and wish we could attend the screening! Orchids: My Intersex Adventure traces Phoebe’s journey as an intersex person with humor, intelligence, sensitivity and depth which belies her age– bravo for intersex-made art! http://citizenjanefilmfestival.org/archives/2012-2/orchids-my-intersex-adventure/
Read MoreOrchids: My Intersex Adventure premieres on Showtime
We HIGHLY recommend Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, the award winning documentary by Australian intersex filmmaker Phoebe Hart. Catch it tonight on Showtime! http://www.afterellen.com/tv/101595-orchids-my-intersex-adventure-airs-tonight-on-showtime
Read MoreWatch Trailer for intersex documentary Intersexion (2012)
Intersexion is an award-winning New Zealand documentary by Cannes Film Festival award winning director Grant LaHood (2012). It is narrated by New Zealand first “out” intersex person, activist Mani Mitchell, who consulted LaHood on the documentary, and features OII intersex American activists Hida Viloria, Dani Lee Harris, and Jim Costich, former OII Australia President Gina…
Read MoreCardiff’s LGBT short film award the Iris Prize is also open to intersex filmmakers
DESPITE its intersex-excluding LGBT acronym, the Iris Prize for short films is also open to intersex filmmakers and is valued at £25,000. May we suggest to the Prize organizers that they signal their apparent intersex inclusion loud and clear by using the intersex-inclusive LGBTI acronym? You know it makes sense and it will help attract more…
Read MoreWatch award-winning intersex film XXY
We loved this award-winning film (Critics Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2007), and are happy to see that beloved film critic Roger Ebert did too, giving it a big thumbs up and 3 and a half (out of 4) stars. Read the review here. Watch Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo’s, XXY (2007, 86 min) here.
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