Willi Ninja
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Biography: Willi Ninja, was an American dancer and choreographer best known for his appearance in the documentary film Paris Is Burning.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Birthday: April 12, 1961
Deathday: September 02, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Paris Is Burning
Overview: Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-13
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PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Overview: It’s the resilience and love that keeps this community marching to the beat of its own drum; each generation redefining what it means to be queer and to be seen.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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House of Trés
Overview: A quickfire portrait of the New York City ballroom scene in the ‘80s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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How Do I Look
Overview: The icons from the "Harlem Drag Balls" are influencing the biggest stars in pop culture for decades and they are telling their untold stories of their time. The creative lifestyle, fierceness and fabulousness, is the ultimate challenge in fashion, on the runway and dance floor for recognition and fame. Wolfgang Busch is capturing the creative way society's disenfranchised express themselves through movement and creativity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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Love is in the Legend
Overview: A documentary relating to a video of the Grand Street Ball of 1988, held by Patricia Field and the House of Field. The film explores the relationships and connections between the music and culture of the Paradise Garage with the ball culture of the mid 1980's, driven by the participants' need to belong, each working, dancing, and surviving together despite the epic sweep of larger societal conflicts of the time. They are featured in present day interviews, along side 1980's archival photography and film, and iconic music representative of the theme, bridging this piece of history to the present day by the passion that lives on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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MOFO NYC
Overview: MOFO NYC is the party brainchild of DJ Singer Glam Bitch Mother Michael T. Along with partners the lovely & talented DJ Justine D, club owner & drummer producer Johnny T & the late great night life visionary Georgie Seville. Together they produced 10 years of epic parties that made NYC nightlife legendary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Check Your Body at the Door
Overview: Check Your Body at the Door is about the remarkable underground House dancing in NYC's golden decade - the 1990s.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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The Little House That Could
Overview: A group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Anthem
Overview: A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-21
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Tongues Untied
Overview: Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Voguing: The Message
Overview: Voguing: The Message traces the roots of this gay, Black and Latino dance form, which appropriates and plays with poses and images from mainstream fashion. Voguing competitions parody fashion shows and rate the contestants on the basis of movement, appearance and costume. This tape is a pre-Madonna primer that raises questions about race, sex and subcultural style.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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