Trailer here. I know it's been discussed a bit, but no better time to discuss it again than now! It's by John Carney, of "Once" and "Begin Again" fame. It's kinda like Irish School of Rock with cool throwbacks. All the kids give great performances and the music is original and very catchy. It's funny, endearing, and full of soul. I highly recommend it!
Who do you think gets nominated?
Upcoming
12/13 Best Actress Drama & Best Actor Drama
12/14 Best Director
12/15 Best Picture Comedy or Musical
12/16 Best Picture Drama
I'm sure the speech will be available on YouTube at some point. I just thought you all may like to know. :)
Written by Jill Soloway, who also wrote Six Feet Under. One of her own parents came out as trans.
From Wikipedia: Soloway created the pilot Transparent for Amazon.com, which became available for free streaming and download on February 6, 2014 and was part of Amazon's second pilot season. She was insipired by her father who came out as transgender. The show stars Gaby Hoffman, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose father (played by Jeffrey Tambor) reveals he is going through a significant life transition. On the new web-based TV viewing experience: "The socialist in me welcomes the kind of democratization these platforms are bringing to our creative community and the viewing public. I feel like I’m part of this creative revolution, like an Arab Spring—but let’s call it an Auteur T.V. Spring—sweeping across the land."
The pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios. On what transparent means to her: "Transparent stands for gender freedom for all, and within that freedom we can find grays and muddled purples and pinks, chakras that bridge the heart and mind, sexiness that depends on a masochistic love or a sweeping soul dominance. In particular, Transparent wants to invent worlds that bridge the binary: Genderqueer, Boygirl, Girlboy, Macho Princess, and Officer Sweet Slutty Bear Captain are just a few incredibly confusing, gender-fucking concepts that come to mind."The show is "about sex and intimacy, about a family inheritance of a woman being born. They get this new mother from their father’s female self."
As part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a “transfirmative action program,” "favoring the hiring of transgender candidates over nontransgender ones."This meant that "20 trans people had been hired in the cast and crew, and more than 60 had been employed as extras." She also hired "two full-time transgender consultants to steer her away from any pitfalls."All the bathrooms on set are gender-neutral. In research for the show: "Our work has been influenced by our consultants, well-known transgender cultural producers Jennifer Finney Boylan, Rhys Ernst, and Zackary Drucker. On our coffee table at work we have the Trans zine Original Plumbing, as well as every book ever written about being trans. My favorite is Whipping Girl by Julia Serano."
Soloway wrote the role Gaby Hoffmann plays in Transparent for her after seei
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