Wednesday, August 11, 2010

GLAAD protests movie at Tribeca Film Festival

March 26, 2010, 2:43 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is job on the Tribeca Film Festival to lift a transgender humerous entertainment from the lineup.

The film, "Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives," pays loyalty to exploitation drive-in theatre and follows a organisation of transgender women who are knocked about and afterwards find revenge. It"s to shade at Tribeca in April.

GLAAD alleges the movie misrepresents the lives of transgender women and claims the characters are caricatures "written as draw towards queens." The classification additionally objected to the make use of of the word "trannies" in the title.

Director Israel Luna and writer Toni Miller expelled a corner matter in response, observant they were astounded by GLAAD"s proclamation and that they gave a duplicate of the movie to GLAAD in February.

In a statement, Tribeca pronounced it is "proud of the ongoing joining to move different voices and stories to the audiences."

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