Max Wolf Valerio
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Biography: Max Wolf Valerio is a poet, memoir writer, essayist and actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, West Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 16, 1957
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men
Overview: This compelling and thought-provoking documentary provides riveting portraits of a diverse group of six men who once were women and chose to change their gender. The award-winning film is an unforgettable story of self-discovery and challenges all of us to re-examine the foundations of our ideas and feelings about gender, sexuality, and identity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Framing Agnes
Overview: After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Max
Overview: Pioneering trans writer Max Wolf Valerio talks about his life and experience of transition in this groundbreaking documentary short, one of the very first portraits of a trans man on film, directed and produced by noted filmmaker Monika Treut.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Female Misbehavior
Overview: From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One has Camille Paglia explaining her ways of thinking. One has Annie Sprinkle explaining her approach to performance art, which includes inviting audience members to view her cervix with a speculum. One interview investigates a professional woman's preoccupation with sadomasochism. The fourth documents the life adjustments of an F2M (female-to-male) sex change who looks like a dangerous biker, with slick black hair, a matching motorcycle jacket, and tattoos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Unhung Heroes
Overview: A comic fiction about five transgender guys who, after finding an internet article announcing the first actual penis transplants are about to be performed, imagine a scheme to come up with over a million dollars in surgery money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-18
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Framing Agnes
Overview: In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-27
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Maggots and Men
Overview: A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-21
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Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Overview: Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-12
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Genderation
Overview: 20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism have evolved, how they have grown into their identities and how their energy continues to have an impact today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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