Credits and Bios

a film by 

Max Garnet & Malic Amalya

produced by 

Annie Terrell

line producer/1st AC/gaffer

Basil Shadid


original music & sound design by
Madsen Minax


sound recorder
Chris Pugh

master fabricator

Nein Frankenstein 

key makeup artist

Max Garnet

craft services

Hazel Pine

Sully McGinnis

production assistants

Daljeet Bajwa
Ellz Dobrick
Fletcher DragonSass
France Trende
Johnny Bird
Joshua Guerci
Lily Maureen
Spencer Bowman
Sweller Weller
Xander Lenc
Zach McNulty

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stanley milgram

Katie Powers

teachers

Rosco Kickingstone

Syniva Whitney

Nein Frankenstein

Mel Bueno

Dean

additional hot queer talent
Calvin Burnap
Danni Does Dallas
Dusty Jones
Lily Maureen
Max Garnet

Raccoonface
Rachel Zingoni

Sasha Porter
Sweller Weller
William Adams


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special thanks to

Ezra Goetzen
DJ Status Apparatus
DJ Manhandler

Hilt TrollSplinter
Wyatt Riot
Ellie, Hexe, Lars, & Brod
Phoenix Blickle
George Terrell
Ennyl Monsoon
Aidan Starr
Jeannette Perkal
Katherine Faydash
Chris Rogers
Ethan Alexander
Hilary Viens
Elizabeth Miller

Mariam & Elijah

Sarah Rogers
Miranda York
Peter Miller
the Northwest Film Forum
& the Broken Hearts Club

Malic Amalya (co-writer/director/cinematographer/editor) is a femme trans fag filmmaker working primarily in 16mm. His films have screened at the Crossroads Film Festival at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TIE Cinema Exposition in Montreal and Milwaukee, the Olympia Film Festival, and the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival. He has also presented his work at Yale University, CalArts, Chicago Filmmakers, and at the TransSomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment conference held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.

Malic is the curator of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival's INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Avant-Garde program and the cinematographer of the documentary feature Riot Acts.  He has been a resident artist at the Northwest Film Forum, the Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw Productions in Seattle, and Blue Sky Project in Dayton, Ohio.  Malic holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working towards an MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. 

For more information, visit www.malicamalya.com

Max Garnet ("the learner" & co-writer/production designer/makeup artist/choreographer) is a fag-femme, butch queen, makeup maven living in Seattle. They have a life-time of experience as a performer in beauty pageants, drag balls, horror films, musicals, queer burlesque, and interpretive dances. While Max’s make-up skills include all-natural and subtle beauty, their passion lies in trashy glam, oozing blood glitter, ship wrecks, snake bites, smeared lipstick, and the over abundance of lace, glitter, and sequins.

Max has worked at the makeup artist for the short films Worst Night Ever and Dinner Dance of Death. Dinner Dance of Death (directed by Juxtapose My Ass) has screened at the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Let's Do It: A Night of Sex Worker Made Media at the Northwest Film Forum.

For more information, visit  www.maxmarvelamaitrice.carbonmade.com/

Annie Terrell (producer) is a queer Femme recently relocated to Seattle from Chicago. An artist raised by activists and a jack of many trades, she is a seamstress, performer, filmmaker, magazine editor, film producer, community organizer and optimistic visionary. Annie is the boss lady and design maverick of DangerVonDanger creations, the co-founder of Chicago's now defunct Hellcat Hussies Burlesque Troupe and her film Searching For Empathy showed at the Homo-a-gogo film festival in Olympia, WA. She can be found on stages around Seattle as burlesque beauty Lola LaBang. She is interested in learning new things, breaking apart her own preconceived notions and scrabble. She believes the only constant is change and that art is the door to lasting revolution and cohesive supportive community.

For more information, visit www.dangervondanger.com

Basil Shadid (line-producer/1st AC/gaffer) is a Seattle-based filmmaker, working locally and internationally.  Previous projects have taken him through Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America and South America. He has also traveled thousands of miles on freight trains throughout the US. Basil was the Post-Coordinator on the Academy Award nominated documentary Iraq in Fragments, and recently produced, shot, and co-wrote Heart Breaks Open. Basil's Masters in Mental Health Counseling, background in popular education, yearning for adventure, and years of experience in production give him a unique perspective on story.  

For more information, visit www.dualpowerproductions.com

Madsen Minax (sound designer) is a creating connoisseur obsessed with agency, vaudeville, intimacy, werewolves, parting, self construction and a slew of other stuff.   Madsen sings and plays bass and guitar in the bands Actor Slash Model and The Homoticons; he is also the director of the award-winning documentary feature Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance (2010). 

For more information, visit www.madsenminax.com

Syniva Whitney ("Teacher #2") is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer and performer.  Her work explores the tension between trash and transformation, and high and low culture.  She is interested in the heart felt, difficult and strange subject of identity construction as a queer person of color, and as a person just like you. 

Syniva is currently an artist in residence at Studio Current ( a "A LIVE-ARTS studio for experimentation, dialog, research, process, practice, body-based processes") directed by Vanessa Dewolf.  Her article "The Grid, Weaving, Body and Mind" was published by the Textile Society of America and her short film SHOT DAY was screened at The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival as a part of Infrared 2011: New Visions from the Queer Avant-Garde curated by Malic Amalya.  Syniva is also giving a performative presentation at the upcoming College Art Association conference in 2012 as a part of the Queer Caucus for Art. Syniva received her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and her MFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She currently lives in Seattle, Washington. 

For more information, visit www.syniva.com

Rosco Kickingstone ("Teacher #1") is a musician, visual artist, radical community organizer & mix-mashin', flavor-flingin', son-of-a-hot-skillet in the kitchen.  This is his first role in a film.