Check Out “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story” At NW Film Forum

There’s a terrific trans documentary to check out this weekend at Northwest Film Forum. Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is executive produced by Elliot Page and directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and focuses on JACKIE SHANE, a larger than life R&B legend who became a big star in 1960s Toronto Canada’s nightclub scene before vanishing from public view in the 1980s. Now, via this new documentary, Jackie’s voice can be heard and her story told!

Any Other Way will screen this Friday, February 28th, and March 1st and 2nd at Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill. (If you go Friday during the national “Buy Nothing Day” it’s ok since NWFF is a local non-profit…) Screenings at:

Fri Feb 28: 7.30pm PDT

Sat Mar 01: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Sun Mar 02: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Get advanced tix at https://nwfilmforum.org/films/any-other-way-jackie-shane-in-person-only/

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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

(Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee,2024, Canada, 98 min, in English)

A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal.

After mysteriously vanishing from public view for almost 40 years, this little-known icon is given her ultimate due in Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s remarkable documentary portrait Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, executive produced by Elliot Page.

In an era when voices like hers were silenced and marginalized, Jackie blazed an incandescent trail from her native Nashville to the top of the charts in 1960s Toronto, where she ruled the nightclub scene. With few recordings of her legendary performances, this film brings Jackie to life in her own words through never-before-heard phone conversations, dazzling rotoscope animation and a newly released song, part of an incredible soundtrack that seals Jackie’s place as one of the greatest soul performers of the 20th century.

The full scope of her extraordinary life and career is an epic journey, marked by family secrets, loss and love. From standing down the mob to telling off Ed Sullivan, Jackie lived as her most authentic self through talent, courage and an unbreakable commitment to truth. But on the eve of her return to the stage, fate had other plans. In Any Other Way, Jackie finally gets her second act. Or in her own words: “Oh, Honey! When it comes to Jackie, look out!”

Synopsis courtesy of The National Film Board of Canada