Razmik, an Armenian cab driver, picks up a prostitute, but ejects her from his cab when he discovers she is not transgender. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman.Īlexandra hands out flyers for her musical performance that evening, and argues with a client who refuses to pay their argument is broken up by the police. Alexandra reveals that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day jail sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. It received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, performances and portrayal of transgender individuals. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015, through Magnolia Pictures. Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones. The story follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her.
Seeing this represented in mainstream cinemas is encouraging, making the content of the film as relevant to contemporary times as the way it has been made.Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker, and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone. But, ultimately, Tangerine reminds us that the real violence comes from outside of this community in the perpetuation of society norms. It has its own problems with representation, particularly the reiteration of blackness and aggression in Sin Dee’s violent treatment of Dinah.
It appropriates and subverts racism, misogyny, homophobia and trans phobia. Like Paris is Burning, this is a film that warrants a close up reading. Importantly, it also draws attention to the most vulnerable, those most at risk of violence, those most likely to be remembered. Tangerine offers a wildly different insight into transgender lives and could be dismissed as sensationalist if it were not filmed in a nonjudgmental way. The final showdown takes place in the Donut Hut, and the subsequent fall-out offers a surprisingly tender and compassionate insight into the multiple ways that people live on the margins, their isolation, and the importance of friendship and forgiveness.
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In the meantime, Alexandra walks the streets and picks up Raznik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian cab driver who is married but frequently pays to perform oral sex on pre-operative trans women. Alexandra mistakenly guesses that she’s finished with him for sleeping around, which sets Sin Dee off on the trail of Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan) the “white fish” (slang for a white cisgendered woman) he has been cheating with. Set on Christmas Eve, Sin Dee is happy to be out of jail after a 28-day sentence and has a secret she wants to share with Alexandra about her pimp/boyfriend Chester (James Ransone). The script was co-crafted with the lead actors and draws on their own experiences and anecdotes of street work and survival around trade, transactions, drugs, pimps, friendship, betrayal, violence and care. It is filmed on a super low budget using a $8 phone app that delivers a close up, social realist edge to a story that crosses the boundaries of drama and documentary. Tangerine offers a chance to revisit these issues, and is receiving similar levels of attention. The legacy of the film can be measured in its influence at the time and it remains an important reference point in courses on LGBT history and queer studies today. Its popularity was far reaching and it drew significant attention from feminist and queer scholars offering different interpretations. Paris is Burning garnered widespread positive critical appraisal and won a Sundance Film Festival Jury prize.
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