Country: Canada
Year: 2020
Duration: 84'
Husband, adoptive father and musician, Billy Tipton, born in 1914 in Oklahoma, is universally considered as one of the icons of 20th Century's jazz music. The secret he always guarded closely comes to light only upon his death, in 1989: a long time before the birth of the Transgender Movement, Tipton lived as a f to m person without anyone knowing. We relive the story of an unconventional man, from every point of view, through the words of other transgender people, between past and present.
Biography
film director
Aisling Chin-Yee
Aisling Chin-Yee is a producer, writer, and director. In 2015, she directed the multi-award winning documentary Synesthesia. Her feature film directorial debut, The Rest of Us, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. That same year, she received the TIFF Canning Fellowship.
Chase Joynt
Chase Joynt is a Canadian artist, actor and writer who explores the representation of violence and gender through his art. He's the author of several documentaries of varying length, which were presented at major festivals. In 2017, he published the autobiographical work You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition, co-written with Mike Hoolbloom.
Cast
& Credits
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac
Montaggio/Editing Aisling Chin-Yee
Fotografia/Photography Léna Mill-Reuillard
Suono/Sound Lynne Trépanier, Marie-Pierre Grenier
Musica/Music Billy Tipton, Rich Aucoin
Interpreti/Cast Susan Stryker, Stephan Pennington, Amos Mac, Marquise Vilsón, C.Riley Snorton, Thomas Page McBee, Zackary Drucker, Kate Bornstein, Jamison Green, Scott Turner Schofield, Billy Tipton Jr.
Produttore/Producer Sarah Spring
Produzione/Production Parabola Films
Montaggio/Editing Aisling Chin-Yee
Fotografia/Photography Léna Mill-Reuillard
Suono/Sound Lynne Trépanier, Marie-Pierre Grenier
Musica/Music Billy Tipton, Rich Aucoin
Interpreti/Cast Susan Stryker, Stephan Pennington, Amos Mac, Marquise Vilsón, C.Riley Snorton, Thomas Page McBee, Zackary Drucker, Kate Bornstein, Jamison Green, Scott Turner Schofield, Billy Tipton Jr.
Produttore/Producer Sarah Spring
Produzione/Production Parabola Films
