WHAT’S ON (Sydney): Trans* is Trending
Walkley-nominated journalist and SBS Mardi Gras presenter聽Patrick Abboud will host a screening of聽Laurence Anyways, directed聽by Canadian director Xavier Dolan.
The film聽is about an award-winning novelist who teaches literature at a Montreal high school. Passionately in love with his girlfriend Frederique, he reveals to her on his 30th birthday that he鈥檚 spent his life feeling like a woman trapped inside a man鈥檚 body.
Laurence Anyways follows the title character鈥檚 transformation, the reactions from friends, family, coworkers and loved ones. Though set, as always, in the distinctive cultural milieu of Dolan鈥檚 hometown of Montreal, the issues of gender and identity explored in Laurence Anyways have universal relevance.
This film won the Queer Palm at Cannes in 2012, with Suzanne Cl茅ment also winning the Un Certain Regard Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Frederique.
Abboud will be joined in conversation before the screening by special guest Calpernia Addams, a renowned American trans* activist, actress, musician and LGBTI icon.
Addams聽will share her own inspiring personal story of transition, as well as discuss the change in the way trans* stories are being represented in mainstream media.
There will be an opportunity for a short Q&A from the audience.
DETAILS:
Where:聽Golden Age Cinema and Bar,聽80聽Commonwealth St, Surry Hills (Sydney)
When: Wednesday, February 25, 8.15pm
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