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Seventh Annual Festival

I’m Not a Boy

06:10 min
Documentary
Director: Julie Joyce
Producer: Listen Up! & Frame by Frame Fierce

Winner of the Empowerment Award

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Julie Joyce, Director

Julie Joyce lives in New York City. She has a Paralegal degree and will be going to school to become an R.N. She plans to combine the two fields and become a legal nurse consultant. She hopes I’m Not a Boy helps young transgendered women to be proud and to be able to voice their struggle. Julie still participates in the ballroom scene, but not as frequently.

Listen Up!, Producer

Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media.

Frame by Frame Fierce, Producer

The House of Frame by Frame Fierce is an artist-run organization dedicated to using animation as a form of artistic activism for at-risk youth. Since 2000, they’ve been teaching animation workshops to street-involved and runaway youth within the Creative Arts Therapy department at Safe Space Homeless Youth Services, as well as Safe Home, a transitional residence for homeless youth with HIV. In the workshop, youth producers learn how to use cutout animation to create images and stories that represent themselves and their unique experiences, both of which are absent within mainstream media. Animation gives youth producers the freedom to walk the border between reality and fantasy, allowing them to communicate powerful and difficult messages with creativity and humor.