Denver Film Festival: “Tales of the Waria”
05/11/11 16:18
The Denver Film Festival is going on now in Denver November 2, 2011 through November 14, 2011.
Tales of the Waria, a film being shown at the Starz Denver Film Festival, documents the lives of transgender women who live in Indonesia. Waria is the term for biological males who transition and live as women in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation. The film by Chinese-American filmmaker Kathy Huang surprises our Western notions of Muslim intolerance and our assumptions about gender, gender identity, sexual identity, and for that matter transgenderism as we know it in United States.
Kathy Huang, director of the film, informed me that Tales of the Waria will be having its Southwest debut at the Starz Denver Film Festival.
Tales of the Waria is a feature-length documentary that follows a community of transgender women in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, as they search for romance and intimacy. At times comical and at times heartbreaking, the film uncovers a world that not only defies our expectations of gender and Islam, but also reveals our endless capacity as human beings to search for love -- whatever the consequences.”
This summer, the film screened to sold-out audiences at Frameline in San Francisco and Outfest in Los Angeles. It also won the Audience Choice Award at the Asian American International Film Festival.
Tales of the Waria be playing in Denver at the Starz FilmCenter on:
Saturday, November 12, 9:45pm
Sunday, November 13, 3:15pm
Tickets can be ordered from the Denver Film Festival website.
Website: www.thewaria.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewaria
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Rachael St.Claire PsyD
Licensed Psychologist