SHANESTAR PRESS PAGE
Photo--> Shawna Virago & I for Trannyfest, 2005.
***shanestar/shani heckman is the WINNER of the inaugural Tee A.Corinne Prize for Lesbian Media Artists. You should submit right here. The deadline is always her birthday, November 3.
***shanestar wins BEST of the Bay, 2006 from the SF Weekly--read it here.
PRESS FOR VIDEOS AND EVENTS
WRONG BATHROOM: (most recent first)
**SF Baytimes & Boston: "Fighting the Bathroom Blues"**Columbia School of Journalism: "Men's Room, Women's Room Where's the Room for the people in between?"
**Reviewed in FOLHA, Brazil’s largest newspaper
**SF-Weekly “Bathroom Cameras, When you Gotta Go”
**Noe Valley Voice “Short Takes”
**Flavorpill-Pick of the Week
PRESS FOR EVENTS:
** for National Queer Arts, Festival-”hot topic”, SF Gay Pride, 2005 ..this is the event that gave Red Without Blue (sundance 2007) it's first award!!
**I was the Guest Curator at Femina Potens for film and video, 2006. I created the, “Down N Dirty Behind the Scenes in Queer Filmmaking" series (we're looking for a new venue):
Featured so far w/ links to their press coverage:
Bill Basquin * Sally Rubin * Shawna Virago * Samara Halperin * Justin Kelly *
Madeleine Lim * Trina Lopez & Siobhan O’Brien * Dolissa Medina
with press in the SF Bay Guardian, SF Bay Times, Flavor-pill and the SF Weekly. The ongoing series features film and dialogue with Bay Area Queer Filmmakers as part of Femina Potens 2006 Film Screenings. Celebrate and promote local queer, trans, and women video artists as we feature intimate conversations with local filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of the filmmaking process, stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop on San Francisco’s filmmaking community followed up by Q & A from the audience.
**Sweet Tooth Film Night at ATA:
SF Weekly Pick of the Week:
Friday, February 13, 2004
Just when the icy winds of San Francisco's bitter six weeks of winter are getting you down, Artists' Television Access has something to keep you warm: "Sweet Tooth: A Night of Hot Queer Shorts." Come for the sexy queers, stay for the delicious cinematic tidbits -- such as Sorry, Brenda, Samara Halperin's two-minute exploration of the just-under-the-surface homoeroticism in Beverly Hills 90210; and Keri Oakie's pervy 15-minute peek at the sexual fantasies of boys' school students, Phineas Slipped. Our pick of the night is "Talk Dirty to Me," a selection of fun porno shorts from dyke-run production company SIR and hosted by Shar Rednour, the infamous star of girl-girl blue feature Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels. Slip into something less comfortable starting at 7:30 p.m. (and again at 10) at ATA, 992 Valencia (at 22nd Street), S.F. Admission is $7; call 206-9392 or visit www.atasite.org.
**FIVE YEAR’s of GIRL FEST :
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.17.99/girlfest-9911.html
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/11.26.97/nighthowl-9748.html
an excerpt:
Female musical unity hits the Vets Hall
By Matt Koumaras
“IT ISN'T TOO OFTEN that a decent show rears its fickle head in the downtown Vets Hall nowadays--I mean a human being can only take seeing the same Agent Orange bill so many times in his/her life. But here's one that has an actual vision--female unity--and is oodles more diverse than the standard "sell tons of merchandise to all the kids and play new songs that nobody cares about" evening. On Saturday night, Santa Cruz's Shane Star Productions and G9 present Girl Fest Santa Cruz 1999--just like Lilith Fair, except it doesn't suck.
San Francisco's Tribe 8 storms back into town for the first time since its last epic performance at the Red Room some five years ago. Vocalist Lynn Breedlove, a slave to her estrogen, is a complete entertainer in the old-school punk-rock sense. Seeing Tribe 8's theatrical live show is definitely something concertgoers will never forget--even Tribe's many sturdy recordings don't do them justice. This group has the rare ability to generate an immediate response from the get-go “
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About Girl Fest 1995-99 not associated w/ the 2000 version here and Hawaii., just the one who first used the idea/name.
I produced this event for five years, doing one a quarter (every 4 months)..and breaking in bands like The Need, Bitch and Animal, GlitterMini9, Tribe 8, Fabulous Disaster & the Butchies to the flavorful Santa Cruz queer scene. A Scene that is hard to tap without an insider. Needless to say not too many shows happen in SC anymore and I had personal debt of 10k from the pleasure of having Ladyfest blow up thereafter.. LOL i wanted girl fest to be ladyfest but my name wasn’t Sleater Kinney, I was just Jo-blow..hence why I’m now a filmmaker..
my last Girl Fest..3 floors, all the sister spit poets, 6 bands in San Francisco after the Dyke March..”The Preteens play San Francisco's Girl Fest '99 with Santa Cruz's Fabulous Disaster among many others on June 26 at the Paradise Lounge”