Country: USA
Year: 1990
Duration: 78'
It took Jennie Livingston six years to capture the spirit of New York ballroom culture and enable the world to get to know it. The rules, the slang, the protagonists of one of the most transgressive and innovative scenes of the 1980s told through the words of the flamboyant queens. They also bring us into their daily lives, far from the glitter: racism, homophobia, poverty, crime and AIDS. This document has a historical value, celebrating its 35th anniversary and showing the uniting and subversive force of a community born out of necessity and marginalization. Featuring Venus Extravaganza, whose tragic death is the subject of I'm Your Venus.
Biography
film director
Jennie Livingston
Jennie Livingston directed and produced the acclaimed Paris Is Burning (1990), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, among other awards, and has become one of the most important films in queer cinema. She is currently working on the documentary Earth Camp One and developing the screenplay for a feature film set in East Berlin and New York in 1989. Livingston previously directed the short films Hotheads (1993), Who's the Top? (2005), Through the Ice (2006) and an episode of the series "Pose" (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Montaggio/Editing Jonathan Oppenheim
Fotografia/Photography Paul Gibson
Suono/Sound Stacia Thompson
Musica/Music Lynn Geller
Interpreti/Cast Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, Octavia St. Laurent
Produttore/Producer Jennie Livingston
Produzione/Production Off-White Productions
Fotografia/Photography Paul Gibson
Suono/Sound Stacia Thompson
Musica/Music Lynn Geller
Interpreti/Cast Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, Octavia St. Laurent
Produttore/Producer Jennie Livingston
Produzione/Production Off-White Productions
