Video
Manscaping
(2022)
Description
Description
Feature Documentary: 60 minutes. An Afrofuturist, a naked fetishist, and a community activist walk into a barbershop… Black American visual artist Devan Shimoyama, transgender Canadian barber Jessie Anderson, and Australian fetish barber/porn producer Richard Savvy are three queer men reimagining the traditional barbershop and restyling masculinity along the way.
DISTRIBUTION: Forthcoming; currently on international festival circuit.
AWARDS & GRANTS: Uplift Award Winner—Geelong Pride Film Festival, Best Documentary Winner—ReelQ Pittsburgh, Best Documentary Honorable Mention—OUTShine LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Best Documentary Honorable Mention—University Film and Video Association, Best Documentary Nominee—Merlinka International Queer Film Festival, Festival Director’s Pick—Queerscreen Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, Festival Favorite—Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Occidental College Faculty Enrichment Grant—2017, 2019, 2022.
SCREENINGS: BFI FLARE London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival—London, UK, Outfest—Los Angeles, CA, Visible Evidence XXIX—Udine, IT, University Film and Video Association—Savannah, GA Queerscreen Sydney Mardi Grad Film Festival—Sydney, AU, Santa Fe Film Festival—Santa Fe, NM, rioLGBTQIA+ Festival de Cinema—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival—Calgary, Canada, OUTShine LGBTQ+ Film Festival—Miami, FL, Arizona International Film Festival—Tucson, AZ, Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival—Ljubljana, Slovenia, Pink Screens Film Festival—Brussels, Belgium, Massimadi: Afro LGBTQ+ Film & Arts Festival—Montreal, CA, prism/aGLIFF Austin Kink Weekend—Austin, TX, Geelong Pride Film Festival—Geelong, AU, Merlinka International Queer Film Festival—Belgrade, RS, Byron Bay International Film Festival—Byron Bay, AU, Mix Copenhagen—Copenhagen, DK, Reel Q Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh, PA, Reel Affirmations—Washington, D.C., Out on Film—Atlanta, GA, ImageOut: Rochester LGBT Film Festival—Rochester, NY, Reeling Chicago—Chicago, IL, GAZE LGBTQ+ International Film Festival—Dublin, IE, Queer Lisboa – Panorama Selection—Lisbon, Portugal, Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival—Palm Springs, CA, Mimesis Documentary Festival—Boulder, CO, OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival—Durham, NC
Keywords
- queer,
- BIPOC,
- teansgender,
- barbershop,
- equity,
- inclusion,
- access,
- LGBTQ+,
- masculinity,
- Australia,
- Canada,
- United States,
- art,
- activism
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
Citation Information
Broderick Fox. "Manscaping" (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bfox/158/