CineMental presents Madsen Minax's groundbreaking documentary Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance, culminating with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political, and the trans experience isn't always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy. Syster Act will be performing!

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Starring Sharon Gless (Queer as Folk, Cagney & Lacey) in a tremendous performance, Hannah Free is a moving film about the lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

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Many of us assume that there are only two genders and that being female or male follows from the sex of our biological bodies. Focusing on the art, photography and performances of four "alternative" gender artists Assume Nothing poses the questions: "What if 'male' and 'female' are not the only options? How do other genders express themselves through art?" Assume Nothing takes its title from the work of renowned NZ photographer Rebecca Swan's book "Assume Nothing" (2004), which reveals an extraordinary diversity of gender identity from the Pacific region and beyond. Assume Nothing creates "living" portraits of four artists featured in Swan's work, woven together by a portrait of Swan herself as an artist, blurring the conventions of documentary, animation, drama and gender in the process

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