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> Soc Doc Soc have organised a special film screening

for next Monday:
>
> You are invited to a private screening of

'Trans-toilets' and
> 'Transfiction', two documentaries on transgendered

Brazilians,
including a
> Q&A with the director of 'Trans-toilets', Ellie

Gurney.
>
> Time: 7pm-8.30pm
> Date: Monday 5th May
> Place: Room LG18, Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site, West

Road, Cambridge
> Price: FREE!
>
> 'Trans-toilets' dir. Ellie Gurney (2008) run

time:20mins - Portuguese
with
> English subtitles
>
> "In Nova Iguaçu, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro Brazil,

a new law has
been
> proposed. This law would require public spaces such

as clubs and
shopping
> malls to have a third type of public toilet. This

third toilet would
be
> for transgendered people. However, support for this

law amongst the
> transgendered community in Rio de Janeiro is

divided..."
>
> 'Transfiction' dir. Johannes Sjöberg (2007) run

time:57mins -
Portuguese
> with English subtitles
>
> "Transfiction has been shot as part of a

practice-based PhD in Drama
and
> explores 'ethnofiction', an experimental

ethnographic film style in
which
> the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to

act out their own
and
> others' life experiences in improvisations. The film

focuses on
identity
> and discrimination in the daily lives of

transgendered Brazilians
living
> in São Paulo."
>
> For more info visit:
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13119443574
>
>



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