1999
TRT 9 min

Production format: 16mm
Optical Sound

Straightboy Lessons is an experimental documentary that reenacts a conversation, and a friendship, between a transitioning transman and a non-transsexual man.

“The first film to demonstrate straight male identity as as much of a construct as any.”
– Inside Out

With: Bo O’Farrell
Camera, Edit: Raymond Rea

Selected Screenings:
Harvard Trans Event, Cambridge, MA
Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
Stray Cat Cinema, Kansas City, MO
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Festival IdentiT, Paris
Artist’s Television Access, SF, CA
Echo Park Film Center, LA, CA
Grand Detour, Portland, OR
San Francisco J Church, Public Transportation screening, SF, CA
Soup, SF, CA
Mix NYC, New York, NY
UCLA Coming Out Week Screening, LA, CA
Transgender Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Outfest, Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, CA
Hi Mom Film Festival, SF, CA
Film Arts Festival, SF, CA
Out on Screen, Vancouver, Canada
New Fest, New York, NY  
London Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, London, England
Melbourne Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Mix Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Hamburg GLBT Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Northwest Transgender and Intersex Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Boston Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Boston, MA
Inside Out, Toronto, Canada
Counting Past Two, Toronto, Canada
Connecticut Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Hartford, CN
San Francisco Cinematheque, “Love, Language, and Violence”, SF, CA London Transgender Film Festival, London, England
Seattle Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Trannyfest, SF
Reeling, Chicago Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Counting Past Two, Toronto, Canada
Forward Motion Conference, Burbank, CA
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, SF, CA