A nonfiction reflection on being out of the closet. As a queer person of color, it's taken me a long time to be as comfortable as I am through navigating forms of intimacy, gender, and self worth. It doesn't always get better, but you're beautiful however you decide to present, including the choice of garments you decide to wear. "I did the thing I was told to do, but it wasn’t what I wanted. I'm pretty strong but if you bully me enough, it'll wear me down." production, direction, animation, and sound by Jordan Wong May 2018, 5:35, color, sound, video Completed at CalArts. // Screenings // 2019 Anthology Film Archives - The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film [New York, New York] The 3rd Annual Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival [Los Angeles, California] The 6th Queer Media Festival [Manchester, England] The 2nd Rockaway Film Festival [Far Rockaway, New York] The 23rd Edition of Queer Lisboa [Lisbon, Portugal] The 25th Annual Cucalorus Festival [Wilmington, North Carolina] Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival [Baltimore, Maryland] Animasyros International Animation Festival + Agora [Syros, Greece] QFest - The Houston International LGBTQ Film Festival [Houston, Texas] Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival [Salt Lake City, Utah] Annecy International Animation Film Festival [Annecy, France] The 7th Winnipeg Underground Film Festival [Winnipeg, Canada] LA Filmforum: Representations of Leaving | Queer Death and heavens [Los Angeles, California] The 14th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival [Berlin, Germany] Flatpack Festival [Birmingham, United Kingdom] The 32nd European Media Art Festival [Osnabrück, Germany] The 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival [Ann Arbor, Michigan] ---------- Awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker The 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival [Tokyo, Japan] The 38th Annual Black Maria Film Festival [Princeton, New Jersey & traveling tour] 2018 London International Animation Festival - Edge of Frame Programme [London, England] DOK Leipzig [Leipzig, Germany] Indie-Anifest 2018 [Seoul, Korea] San Diego Underground Film Festival [San Diego, California] Malt Adult #9: Independent Animation [Columbus, Ohio] California Institute of the Arts: Film/Video Showcase - PANORAMA [Los Angeles, California]
