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Queer Film “Signature Move” Opens Seattle Asian American Film Festival

February 21, 2018• byMichael Strangeways
The 2017 film SIGNATURE MOVE opens the 6th annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival on Thursday, February 22, 2018

The 2017 film SIGNATURE MOVE opens the 6th annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival on Thursday, February 22, 2018

The 6th annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival kicks off this Thursday, February 22nd at Broadway Performance Hall on Capitol Hill with the 2017 independently made American film SIGNATURE MOVE which features a lesbian main character exploring a relationship with another woman who is a Lucha Libre wrestler.

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Signature Move
Directed by Jennifer Reeder
United States / 2017 / 79 mins

The award-winning Signature Move tells the story of Zaynab, a Pakistani Muslim woman who finds romance with the free-spirited Mexican American woman Alma, and also inspiration through Lucha Libre wrestling. Her newfound passions force her to confront her relationship with her recently widowed mother whose great escapes include watching soap operas and finding her daughter a husband. Zaynab must navigate all of her desires and identities in this heart-warming, hilarious, and painfully familiar coming of age story.

Tickets for SIGNATURE MOVE include admission to the SAAFF 2018 Opening Night Party immediately following the screening. 

This program is co-presented by Tasveer and Three Dollar Bill Cinema.

ABOUT SAAFF

The Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF) showcases works by Northwest Asian American filmmakers, as well as films from across North America dealing with Asian American people, issues, and themes. SAAFF is the only film festival in Seattle to provide a space for Asian American voices, perspectives, and histories. For more information about SAAFF, visit seattleaaff.org.

Director’s Bio

Jennifer Reeder constructs personal films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial.

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There’s another screening at SAAFF with an LGBTQ film. PORTRAITS OF US is a shorts program sponsored by Pride Asia that features 3 shorter films including one with a transgender main character.

PORTRAITS OF US (SHORTS PROGRAM)

Northwest Film Forum Screen 1
Friday Feb 23, 2018 6:30 pm Buy Tickets

Lady Eva

DEAN HAMER, JOE WILSON, HINALEIMOANA WONG-KALU / UNITED STATES / 2016 / DOCUMENTARY, LGBT / 11 MINS

IN LADY EVA, a brave young transgender woman sets off on a journey to become her true self in the conservative Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga – with a little inspiration from Tina Turner along the way. The story is told in the context of her involvement in the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant, where Tonga’s “leitis” participate even when family members do not approve.

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About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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