Blood, Sweat, and Glitter

Sunday, September 18
Tower Theatre - 5 p.m.
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Scheduled to Appear: Sasha Aickin

Winner of the Frameline 29 (2005) Audience Award for Best Documentary

The road to Trannyshack is filled with lust, desire, and lots of big hair. Nothing is as fiercely combative as when contestants square off to become San Francisco's "Miss Trannyshack!"

Bay Area filmmaker Sasha Aickin was granted access and a backstage pass to the antics and talents of the very best of drag sensations. Through his lens, many of today's creme de la creme in bohemian harlotry (er, I mean artistry) become as oversized on screen as they think of themselves on stage.

Heklina (famed Trannyshack founder), Syphilis Diller, Diva Dan, Peggy L'eggs, Ana Conda, Cookie Dough, Falsetta Knockers, and more random trash go behind the glamour, beyond the costumes, and share with us the real stories behind the fastidious-borderingon-compulsive drive to win.

While the performances mesmerize audiences and judges alike, they're just the tits on the iceberg; the true pomp and circumstance of this dyed-in-thewool San Francisco event is in selecting a winner - a process almost as shocking and ball-busting as the actual performances on stage. - Jim Norrena (for the San Francisco ILGBTFF).

Directed by Sasha Aickin
2005, USA, Video, 88 minutes

Contains things no one should ever see on stage.
Mature Audiences and Immature Queens Only.
No one under 17 admitted without parent or guardian.

In View of Her Fatal Inclination Lilo Wanders Gives Up the Ghost

Directed by Jörg Fockele
1994, Germany, 35mm, 3 minutes
Drag is a drag.

Screening Sponsor: Knights of Malta and Imperial Dove Court (Fresno/Madera)
Day Sponsor: Warner Company