Experience this incredible double feature during our celebration of Transgender Awareness Week! Starting with a beautiful local short, Boy Mode, followed by renowned musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Stay afterward for a Q&A with the local filmmakers of Boy Mode!
Boy Mode (2024), written & directed by Dylan Albertson & Andromeda Johnson, features Reese, a transgender woman in a post-drag ban Oklahoma, who is forced to decide between what she owes herself and what is allowed. Despite the oppressive political climate, she finds spectacular beauty in the town's drag community.
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 23m
Rating: NR
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), directed by John Cameron Mitchell, depicts Hedwig, raised as a boy in East Berlin, who then undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an ‘internationally ignored’ but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a ‘beautiful gender of one’.
Genre: Musical/Comedy
Runtime: 1h 33m
Rating: R