Lisset Barcellos' Film "Both"

[Peter]

Today, I read an announcement in the San Francisco Chronicle about an upcoming film festival. The article says:

"The intersex community gets a voice in "Both", the story of a Preuvian American, played by Jackie Parker, who learns that she was born a hermaphrodite and that the boy in her family pictures - the brother her parents told her about - is actually her. It screens June 22 at the Victoria."

The ISNA website has more information about when and where this full-length feature film is to be screened. I found the following comments by Lisset while searching the internet:

"Barcellos says she enjoys telling stories visually. But she also has a mission: "I think the portrayal of Latinos is plagued with negative stereotypes, and that doesn't reflect the diversity and complexity of people of flesh and bone. As a filmmaker, I want my characters to be ambiguous, complex and three-dimensional."

Peter