Drag Kids
You can be a drag queen aged 9 or 11, if you just have the right make-up, clothes and attitude.
78'
Canada
IFFR 2020
Right from the start of his career, Beverly Glenn-Copeland (1944) was an outsider: the only black classical music student at the McGill music academy in Canada, as well as one of few openly gay people at a time – the early 1960s – when this was still a criminal offence. For a long time, Glenn-Copeland lived as a lesbian woman – until he realised he was transgender.
The folk-jazz records Glenn-Copeland recorded in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed, as did the album of electronic new age music he issued on cassette in 1986: Keyboard Fantasies. Three decades later, this was rediscovered and reissued by a Japanese record collector.
The gentle, engaging Glenn-Copeland talks in the film about the friction with his parents, but also about the spirituals his mother taught him. We also see how, at the age of 74, he finally gets the recognition his music deserves: performing to sell-out venues, including at Utrecht's Le Guess Who? festival.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Every night a different music genre, explored in a unique setting with live extras. What links these documentaries is their attention to social background.
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78'
Canada
IFFR 2020
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74'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
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77'
Russia
IFFR 2020