Frameline40 Panel: Trans Stories: On Film and Online - Moderated by Sam Berliner

As part of a special initiative supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Frameline: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival presented a special series for the 40th Festival anniversary June 16-26, 2016. In Whose Image? LGBTQ Storytelling 1977 to Today encompassed a series of film screenings and panel discussions that reflected upon and contextualized a powerful body of filmmaking from the founding year of the Festival through today. This panel, Trans Stories: On Film and Online, addressed trans and gender expansive representation in mainstream film, new wave “television” and directly online through portals such as YouTube and Vine. Moderated by Sam Berliner. Frameline40: Tuesday, June 21, 3:30 – 5:00 PM, Roxie Theatre

PANELISTS: Rhys Ernst (@rhysernst) - Director, This is Me, We’ve Been Around; Producer, Transparent Jeffrey Marsh (@thejeffreymarsh) - Social Star and Author with Penguin Random House Jen Richards (@smartassjen) - Writer, Producer, Actor, Her Story Angelica Ross (@angelicaross) - Actor, Her Story; Founder of @TransTechSocial