WSSA & the 2110 Centre for Gender
Advocacy present a double dose of filmmaker Gwen Haworth! Both events
are free, in accessible spaces and there is childcare available, just
let us know! wssa.concordia@gmail.com
*Workshop – The Importance
of trans self-representations, auto-ethnographies and DIY film-making
6pmTuesday March 30th, 2010 @ 2110
Centre For Gender Advocacy 2110 McKay
This workshop will deal
with the importance of self-representation through media tools like DIY
film-making and auto-ethnographies. Gwen
will discuss her process of film-making, as well as offer a critical
review of the construct of objective filmmaking. Haworth
embraces a point of view approach that strives for empathy and
collective
storytelling. This workshop will be both informative and interactive!
*FILM SCREENING – She’s A Boy I Knew 6pm Wednesday March 31st, 2010 @ room
VA 114, 1395 René Lavesque – in
association with Queer Cinema
Guaranteed to be the most
compelling DIY, gender bending, feel good film directed by a transsexual
lesbian you’ve seen all year!
Using
archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation,
Haworth’s documentary She’s a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven
Haworth’s decision to come out to his family about his life-long female
gender identity.
The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an
exploration into the filmmaker’s process of transition from biological
male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged
account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her
two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen’s
transition.
As her transition progresses, Gwen is forced to reckon
with the end of her marriage and the loss of her status as son and
brother. But in doing so, she also discovers that while the nature of
personal relationships may change, the love and support present within
those relationships can remain just as powerful and sometimes even more
so.
At turns painful, funny, and awkward, She’s A Boy I Knew explores the
frustrations, fears, questions, and hopes experienced by Gwen and
her family as they struggle to understand and embrace her newly revealed
identity.
*We will have director Gwen Haworth in attendance, so
join us for a Q&A after the screening!