EXPOSURES

**Context Profile for EXPOSURES**

1. **Organization Mission & Cause:**
   - **Mission:** EXPOSURES is dedicated to supporting and showcasing trans and queer cinema. Their primary focus is on organizing film festivals and events that highlight the voices and stories of trans individuals. They aim to challenge societal norms and oppressive systems through the power of film and storytelling.
   - **Cause:** The organization is committed to amplifying trans and queer narratives, fostering community engagement, and advocating for social justice and equality through cinematic arts.

2. **Type of Activities:**
   - **Film Festivals:** They organize the "Exposures: Trans Film Festival," which is a unique event in Canada created by and for trans people.
   - **Fundraising Events:** They host benefit events like "Trans Takes Vol. 1: Pression," where all profits support the organization of future film festivals.
   - **Film Screenings and Discussions:** Events often include film screenings followed by discussions to engage the audience in critical conversations about trans and queer issues.

3. **Tone of Voice:**
   - **Inspiring and Urgent:** The language used is passionate and calls for action, often emphasizing the urgency of supporting trans and queer communities.
   - **Empowering and Defiant:** The tone is empowering, encouraging resistance against oppressive systems and celebrating the resilience of trans and queer individuals.
   - **Inclusive and Community-Oriented:** Uses inclusive language to address and involve a diverse audience.

4. **Emoji Usage:**
   - **Frequent Use:** Emojis like ✨ and 🎬 are used to add emphasis and convey excitement and celebration in their communications.
   - **Purposeful Placement:** Emojis are strategically placed to highlight key points and create an engaging and visually appealing message.

5. **Key Facts:**
   - **Founding Info:** Specific founding details are not provided on the website.
   - **Scale:** The organization has conducted 7 forms and 6 email campaigns, indicating active engagement with their audience.
   - **Impact Metrics:** They are the only film festival in Canada created by and for trans individuals, highlighting their unique position and impact in the community.
   - **Volunteer Info:** Not explicitly mentioned, but community involvement is implied through event participation.

6. **Writing Guidelines:**
   - **Style:** Use a mix of formal and informal language, with a strong emphasis on inclusivity and empowerment.
   - **Structure:** Content should be engaging, with clear calls to action and a focus on storytelling.
   - **Visuals:** Incorporate emojis to enhance messages and maintain a visually appealing format.
   - **Messaging:** Focus on themes of resistance, liberation, and community support, aligning with their mission to challenge oppressive systems through film.

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After a long hiatus, EXPOSURES returns just in time for Trans Day of Visibility! ✨ And we&#39;re going back to our roots on this occassion: defiant, rare, and often forgotten trans cinema, brought back to the screen with care, attention, and a great deal of love.&nbsp;I started Exposures as a way to pay homage to all the queer and trans people who came before us. To thank them for being brave enough to record their own stories and share them with the world, thus leaving behind these beautiful artefacts of T4T love for me to find. It is my honour, in turn, to bring these works to you - to create a bridge between past and present so that maybe, just maybe, we can imagine a better future together. Across six documentary and cin&eacute;ma v&eacute;rit&eacute; works, Trans Portraits&nbsp;invites you to meet Toni, Randi, Valerie, Nancy, Henri, Elizabeth, Jo, Matt, and Kelby. In turn, they will let you into their lives by sharing their reflections on identity, desire, familiy, prison, sex work, domesticity, kink and more. Prepare to laugh, learn, and really listen as their lives unfold on screen.&nbsp; Please note: Though all of these films were directed by cis filmmakers, they still make space for trans intimacy and self-determination. At times their gaze can be exoticising, but the directors mostly step aside and let their protagonists paint their own portraits. TRANS PORTRAITS is a journey back in time, and while many things may look different, far too many remain the same. Travel with me from the 1960s to the 1990s, and from Montr&eacute;al to the United States to Australia, through a constellation of trans lives captured on film. SPECIAL Q&amp;A After the screening, we are pleased to welcome Ophera Hallis, collaborator and partnerof the late Ron Hallis, for a special Q&amp;A. In conversation with Exposures founder, IrisPint, Ophera will offer rare insight into the making and legacy of Toni (1967) and Randi(1970). FULL PROGRAM: TONI &amp; RANDI&nbsp;Ron Hallis | 1967 &amp; 1970 | Quebec | 16&#39; Two intimate character studies from Qu&eacute;b&eacute;cois filmmaker Ron Hallis: one following a drag performer, the other a transfeminine sex worker navigating life in Montr&eacute;al in the early-70s. Deux portraits intimistes du cin&eacute;aste qu&eacute;b&eacute;cois Ron Hallis : l&#39;un suivant une artiste drag, l&#39;autre une travailleuse du sexe transf&eacute;minine naviguant dans le Montr&eacute;al du d&eacute;but des ann&eacute;es 70. Les deux films sont tourn&eacute;s dans un noir et blanc saisissant. NANCY, HENRI &amp; ELIZABETH&nbsp;Bob Aibel and Lynn Fagan | 1973 | 17&#39; NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH brings together the voices of two trans women at different stages of transition with that of a bisexual man whose performance of gender reflects the fluidity of his desire and identity. This will be the Canadian premiere of a newly restored copy of this long-unavailable short. NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH r&eacute;unit les voix de deux femmes trans &agrave; diff&eacute;rentes &eacute;tapes de leur transition et celui d&#39;un homme bisexuel dont la performance de genre refl&egrave;te la fluidit&eacute; de son d&eacute;sir et de son identit&eacute;. Le film, longtemps introuvable, sera pr&eacute;sent&eacute; ici en premi&egrave;re canadienne dans une nouvelle copie restaur&eacute;e. VALERIE&nbsp;Joseph Horning |1975 |14&#39; In this cinema verit&eacute; time capsule, Valerie, a Black trans sex worker in Ohio, speaks candidly about survival while dreaming of a different life. Her reflections reveal a life shaped by precarity and incarceration, but also hope and remarkable perseverance. Dans cette capsule temporelle de cin&eacute;ma v&eacute;rit&eacute;, Valerie, une travailleuse du sexe noire et trans en Ohio, parle franchement de survie tout en r&ecirc;vant d&#39;une vie diff&eacute;rente. Ses r&eacute;flexions dressent le portrait d&#39;une vie marqu&eacute;e par la pr&eacute;carit&eacute; et l&#39;incarc&eacute;ration, mais aussi par l&#39;espoir et une pers&eacute;v&eacute;rance remarquable. BOYS IN THE BACKYARD&nbsp;Annette Kennerley | 1997 | 22&#39; A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of &rsquo;93. Matt and Jo sit together in their backyard and talk about their daddy/boy relation-ship, transgender life, T4T love, tattoos and tomato plants. Une tranche de vie, San Francisco, &eacute;t&eacute; 93. Matt et Jo, assis dans leur cour arri&egrave;re, parlent de leur relation daddy/boy, de transidentit&eacute;, de vie, d&#39;amour T4T, de tatouages et de plants de tomates. KELBY&nbsp;Annette Kennerley | 1997 | 20&#39; &laquo; Je suis juste un gars ordinaire&hellip; &raquo; Kelby s&#39;est vu attribuer un genre &agrave; la naissance &mdash; il a ensuite rectifi&eacute; cette erreur.Tourn&eacute; &agrave; Sydney (Australie) en 1996, ce documentaire intimiste suit Kelby, n&eacute; intersexe, qui parle de sa vie, de son identit&eacute;, et du chemin parcouru pour devenir qui il est aujourd&#39;hui.Au moment du tournage, il p&egrave;se sa derni&egrave;re grande d&eacute;cision : s&#39;acheter une bite ou une Harley. &lsquo;I&rsquo;m just a regular bloke&hellip;&rsquo; Kelby&rsquo;s gender was decided for him at birth &ndash; he later put right that mistake.An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Born intersex, he talks about his life, identity and the process of becoming the person he is now.In the film, Kelby also weighs up his latest decision in life: whether to buy a dick or a Harley. This program was made possible with the generous support of the SHARE micro grant from QAHN and Canadian Heritage, whose support allowed us to research, locate, and share these incredible films &mdash; including rarely seen works from Qu&eacute;bec&rsquo;s trans cinematic history.

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; color: rgb(42, 42, 196); padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;">First name, Thank you for purchasing a ticket to Trans Portraits. We cannot wait to share these incredible films with you.&nbsp; If you would like to contribute further, contact us to become a volunteer, or talk to your friends about our work! Iris Pintiris@exposuresmtl.com

After a long hiatus, EXPOSURES returns just in time for Trans Day of Visibility! ✨ And we're going back to our roots on this occassion: defiant, rare, and often forgotten trans cinema, brought back to the screen with care, attention, and a great deal of love. I started Exposures as a way to pay homage to all the queer and trans people who came before us. To thank them for being brave enough to record their own stories and share them with the world, thus leaving behind these beautiful artefacts of T4T love for me to find. It is my honour, in turn, to bring these works to you - to create a bridge between past and present so that maybe, just maybe, we can imagine a better future together. Across six documentary and cinéma vérité works, Trans Portraits invites you to meet Toni, Randi, Valerie, Nancy, Henri, Elizabeth, Jo, Matt, and Kelby. In turn, they will let you into their lives by sharing their reflections on identity, desire, familiy, prison, sex work, domesticity, kink and more. Prepare to laugh, learn, and really listen as their lives unfold on screen.  Please note: Though all of these films were directed by cis filmmakers, they still make space for trans intimacy and self-determination. At times their gaze can be exoticising, but the directors mostly step aside and let their protagonists paint their own portraits. TRANS PORTRAITS is a journey back in time, and while many things may look different, far too many remain the same. Travel with me from the 1960s to the 1990s, and from Montréal to the United States to Australia, through a constellation of trans lives captured on film. SPECIAL Q&amp;A After the screening, we are pleased to welcome Ophera Hallis, collaborator and partnerof the late Ron Hallis, for a special Q&amp;A. In conversation with Exposures founder, IrisPint, Ophera will offer rare insight into the making and legacy of Toni (1967) and Randi(1970). FULL PROGRAM: TONI &amp; RANDI Ron Hallis | 1967 &amp; 1970 | Quebec | 16' Two intimate character studies from Québécois filmmaker Ron Hallis: one following a drag performer, the other a transfeminine sex worker navigating life in Montréal in the early-70s. Deux portraits intimistes du cinéaste québécois Ron Hallis : l'un suivant une artiste drag, l'autre une travailleuse du sexe transféminine naviguant dans le Montréal du début des années 70. Les deux films sont tournés dans un noir et blanc saisissant. NANCY, HENRI &amp; ELIZABETH Bob Aibel and Lynn Fagan | 1973 | 17' NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH brings together the voices of two trans women at different stages of transition with that of a bisexual man whose performance of gender reflects the fluidity of his desire and identity. This will be the Canadian premiere of a newly restored copy of this long-unavailable short. NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH réunit les voix de deux femmes trans à différentes étapes de leur transition et celui d'un homme bisexuel dont la performance de genre reflète la fluidité de son désir et de son identité. Le film, longtemps introuvable, sera présenté ici en première canadienne dans une nouvelle copie restaurée. VALERIE Joseph Horning |1975 |14' In this cinema verité time capsule, Valerie, a Black trans sex worker in Ohio, speaks candidly about survival while dreaming of a different life. Her reflections reveal a life shaped by precarity and incarceration, but also hope and remarkable perseverance. Dans cette capsule temporelle de cinéma vérité, Valerie, une travailleuse du sexe noire et trans en Ohio, parle franchement de survie tout en rêvant d'une vie différente. Ses réflexions dressent le portrait d'une vie marquée par la précarité et l'incarcération, mais aussi par l'espoir et une persévérance remarquable. BOYS IN THE BACKYARD Annette Kennerley | 1997 | 22' A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of ’93. Matt and Jo sit together in their backyard and talk about their daddy/boy relation-ship, transgender life, T4T love, tattoos and tomato plants. Une tranche de vie, San Francisco, été 93. Matt et Jo, assis dans leur cour arrière, parlent de leur relation daddy/boy, de transidentité, de vie, d'amour T4T, de tatouages et de plants de tomates. KELBY Annette Kennerley | 1997 | 20' « Je suis juste un gars ordinaire… » Kelby s'est vu attribuer un genre à la naissance — il a ensuite rectifié cette erreur.Tourné à Sydney (Australie) en 1996, ce documentaire intimiste suit Kelby, né intersexe, qui parle de sa vie, de son identité, et du chemin parcouru pour devenir qui il est aujourd'hui.Au moment du tournage, il pèse sa dernière grande décision : s'acheter une bite ou une Harley. ‘I’m just a regular bloke…’ Kelby’s gender was decided for him at birth – he later put right that mistake.An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Born intersex, he talks about his life, identity and the process of becoming the person he is now.In the film, Kelby also weighs up his latest decision in life: whether to buy a dick or a Harley. This program was made possible with the generous support of the SHARE micro grant from QAHN and Canadian Heritage, whose support allowed us to research, locate, and share these incredible films — including rarely seen works from Québec’s trans cinematic history.

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