BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:50@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210204T173000 DTSTAMP:20220516T191943Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/no-ordinary-man-the-billy-tipton-documen tary-screening-and-roundtable-discussion-with-directors-writers-and-cast/ SUMMARY:No Ordinary Man: The Billy Tipton Documentary Screening and Roundta ble Discussion with Directors\, Writers\, and Cast DESCRIPTION:A recording of the event is now available on the Bonham Centre ’s Youtube Channel.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/xIAdu5Ukwtw\n\n \;\n\nThe Ma rk S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies presents a limited-access screening of the ground-breaking film No Ordinary Man: The Billy Tipton D ocumentary in advance of its Canadian release on April 2nd!\nClick here t o register on Eventbrite for access to the film and roundtable zoom links. \nAfter viewing the film\, join us for a roundtable conversation and Q& \;A between the directors\, writers\, and cast\, featuring Aisling Chin-Ye e\, Chase Joynt\, Amos Mac\, and Marquise Vilsón. The film will be availa ble for viewing February 2nd-3rd through a password protected link that wi ll only be accessible to viewers based in Canada. The roundtable will be h eld on Thursday\, Feb 4 on Zoom\, and a link will be sent on the day of th e talk. All are welcome to attend the roundtable regardless of location! L ive captions will be available for the talk.\nAbout No Ordinary Man\nCo-di rected by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt and written by Amos Mac and Ais ling Chin-Yee\, the feature-length documentary No Ordinary Man is an in-de pth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Bill y Tipton came of age in the 1930s and 40s\, playing saxophone and piano ne ar his home in Kansas City and touring with his band across the American M idwest. Billy was one of hundreds of mid-level musicians who brought the s winging style of Duke Ellington to small town supper clubs. In the 1950s\, Billy stopped touring and settled down in Spokane\, Washington where he s tarted a family. When he died in 1989\, the story of Billy’s life was re written by tabloids and talk shows as a tale of trickery and deception – a legacy of contested meaning which endures to this day. Details of Tipto n’s life have long been tied to Diane Middlebrook’s biography Suits Me \, which claims Billy as an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a career in music. In No Ordinary Man\, Tipton’s story is reimagined by trans writers and performed by trans people. The film juxtaposes details from Tipton’s life with the experiences of transmasculine actors as they audition for the role of Billy. Complicated\, beautiful and historically unrivaled\, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a communi ty collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero.\nYou can find a t railer for the film here:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/FQUIrxg6wOM\n\n \;\n\nAi sling Chin-Yee is a Canadian film director\, writer and producer. Her film s include The Rest of Us\, Synesthesia\, and No Ordinary Man (which was aw arded Best Canadian Feature at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival).\nC hase Joynt is a writer\, director\, and Assistant Professor of Gender Stud ies at the University of Victoria whose films have won jury and audience a wards internationally. His last short film\, Framing Agnes\, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is being developed into a feature film with support from Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program. Most recently\, Chase directed an episode of Two Sentence Horror Stories for the CW that a rrives on Netflix in February 2021.\nAmos Mac is a writer\, producer and v isual artist currently writing on the new GOSSIP GIRL series for HBO Max. As a producer he’s worked across documentary and unscripted\, including GAYCATION for Viceland. He is a founding editor of ORIGINAL PLUMBING\, the print zine that artfully documented trans male culture from 2009-2019.\nM arquise Vilsón is an actor and activist. He made his New York stage debut Off-Broadway as Berta in MCC Theatre’s CHARM and his feature film debut as Leon in Peter Hedges’ BEN IS BACK. As a young trans man\, Marquise w as featured in the documentary The Aggressives (2005)\, and is a long-stan ding member and participant of the underground ballroom scene in NYC. Upco ming projects include The Kitchen\, starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish\, NBC’s The Blacklist\, and the Netflix’s Tales Of The City.\n \n \;\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexu al Diversity Studies and the Sexual and Gender Diversity Office (SGDO) at the University of Toronto. 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