The Believers is Screening With:
80 minutes
Recipient of the Frameline 30 Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma - how to reconcile their gender identity with the widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of God.
Set against the story of the Transcendence Gospel Choir's founding, the documentary reveals the lives of its members. The film takes us from the Transcendence Gospel Choir's shaky beginnings - a heartwarmingly chaotic, cacophonous group unable to agree on much of anything, arguing over appropriate wardrobe and learning to sing with transitioning voices - through their transformation into the polished, award-winning choir and close-knit family they are today, garnering major performances and winning an Outmusic Award in 2004 for the album Whosoever Believes.
6 minutes
Genderbusters is a short 16mm film written and directed by Sam Berliner, a genderqueer graduate film student at San Francisco State University working towards his MFA.
In their fight for the Gender Evolution Revolution, our heroes drive around resolving the gender-binary dilemmas of folks all over San Francisco.
This film provides a positive voice for the trans, genderqueer, androgynous & gender-fluid folks not yet represented on screen, documenting our history, serving as a call to action to be recognized and respected by society at large, and forcing our culture to evolve.
Plus a Q&A with Sam Berliner after the screening
