Enuff Said About "Ticked Off Trannies...."

This is good news. Israel Luna has conceded to changing the trailer of "Ticked Off Trannies..." My major objection to the marketing of this film was the Transploitation of murder victims Angie Zapata and Jorge Mercado. At this point, I do not plan on seeing the movie or saying much more about it. The reality is the film will be shown at the NYC film festival but not much more can be said or done without giving the film far more publicity than it deserves. What is the return on investment for further beating on the subject? The answers are big profits for Israel Luna and self-promotion for would be activists who do not know when to disengage. Director of Transgender Film Will Change Its Trailer By DAVE ITZKOFF The director of “Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives,” a movie planned for the Tribeca Film Festival that has set off a war of words before being screened there, said he would amend its trailer so that it would not refer to real-life victims of violence. In an e-mail message, Israel Luna, who wrote and directed the film, said he was inspired to create the movie “in part by the hate crimes against the trans community.” He said he included references in his trailer to Angie Zapata, a transgender woman who was beaten to death in Colorado in 2008, and Jorge Mercado, a gay teenager who was murdered in Puerto Rico in 2009, “to give a disturbing reality to my film about transgender violence.” “After listening to some of the voices in the trans community,” Mr. Luna said, “I’ve decided to remove those references from the trailer.” He added: “It seems that the association between their brutal stories and the revenge/thriller content of the film in its entirety has been difficult to connect.” A listing for the movie on the tribecafilm.com Web site had drawn angry comments, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation had sought the movie’s removal from the festival, saying, “The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women.” ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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