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Title Why Can't I Be Me? Around You
Published Les Blank Films, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Albuquerque's Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, shocked friends and family by coming out as trans. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank (son of Les Blank), Rusty guides us through the aftermath of her transition, as growing acceptance among her straight-talking Southwest community still doesn't ease her romantic and professional woes. Interwoven with lively tales of gender non-conforming individuals on the art-car circuit, Blank's film -- a hit at South by Southwest -- is a sensitive and unpredictable love letter to people who fight to be unapologetically themselves. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**, **Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival**, and **Mill Valley Film Festival**
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Film
In Process Record
Performer Brandi Bosier, Harrod Blank, Lucy Hosking, Plymouth Harman Ansbergs, Rusty Tidenberg, Shevaa Deva
Event Originally produced by Les Blank Films in 2019
Notes In English
Subject LGBTQ
Documentary films.
Documentary films
Genre/Form Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Blank, Harrod, film director
Dijk, Sjoerd, film director
Bosier, Brandi, actor
Blank, Harrod, actor
Hosking, Lucy, actor
Harman Ansbergs, Plymouth, actor
Tidenberg, Rusty, actor
Deva, Shevaa, actor
Les Blank Films (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)