Canada 2024, 99 min, Dir: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
PG
Once you’ve heard Jackie Shane sing, you’ll never forget it. Yet, after shattering barriers as one of pop music’s first Black trans performers, this trail-blazing icon vanished from the spotlight at the height of her fame. From modest beginnings in Nashville, Shane soon recognized her talents and, in her late teens, made her way to Boston and Montreal, working the nightclub circuit while taking the stage with Frank Motley, a musician known for playing two trumpets at once. Her arrival in Toronto during its 1960s music explosion made her a highly sought-after headlining act who seemed destined to take her place among the R&B stars of the era.
Blending her music with never-released phone conversations and soulful animated re-enactments, Any Other Way:?The Jackie Shane Story brings Shane back to life in her own words, finally providing the recognition she so rightly deserves and introducing her to a generation fighting for their right to be their true selves. (Hot Docs)
Presented in partnership with The UofA Women’s and Gender Studies Department, The English and Film Studies Department, The Institute of Intersectionality Studies, and the Fyrefly Institute for Gender and Sexual Diversity.
Free admission. Filmmakers will be in attendance.
