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CAST AND CREW BIOS
(more bios coming soon)

OAKIE TREADWELL (Director)
Oakie a San Francisco based filmmaker and queer activist, and director of the film Phineas Slipped, an experimental gender-spoiler schoolboy film. www.sexyfilm.se
Postcode Productions, founded in 2002 by Oakie Treadwell, is a production company committed to producing, and distributing films worldwide that raise awareness oftransgender issues, catapult positive representations of queer transgender sexuality directly into people’s lives, and actively function to dismantle the binary gender structure.Treadwell views his role as a director both as an opportunity to orchestrate collaborations between peers and community members, and as a means to participate in a ongoing discussion about gender, pushing this dialogue further than might be reached conversationally. Maggots and Men and his previous film Phineas Slipped are both set in all male environments, yet they are cast with actors from a spectrum of gender expressions. Thus, “manhood” is redefined for the audience. With the gender-play as a subtext, his films attempt to tackle social issues, revealing the ways in which hierarchical structures of domination cause pain and suffering.

FLO MCGARRELL (Producer, Art Director)
Flo has insinuated himself into this project as a direct result of a sailor filled dream dreamt over eight years ago, this dream cyclically resurfaces in Flo's work and identity. Flo's better known work consists of inflatable spaces that exist between sculpture, architecture, and virtual reality. Flo's work can be seen at www.gowithflo.net. Flo also teaches both sculptural and digital media/video courses.

ILONA BERGER (Script Writer, 2nd camera)

BLAKE NEMEC (Script Writer)
Blake is a sound engineer, Phlebotomist, and media activist. His writing has been published in slingshot, Lip Magazine, as well as two anthologies, From the Inside Out, and That?s Revolting. He is a sound technician with five years dedication to national micro-radio and independent media groups. Such work involved collaborating with ages that range from seventeen through forty. He has worked as a boom operator and sound engineer in various independent films including Dear Doctors: Born Queer.

K8 HARDY (Camera Person)
video and performance artist, collective member of LTTR, super-8 cinematographer, fashionfashion, whitney independent
study program, smith college women's studies major, filmmaker, lover of radical art and notions, hater of capitalism.

LARIN SULLIVAN Larin works and lives in Los Angeles as a film festival organizer and mainstream infiltrator. She promotes the only fun queer/trans club in LA at Gauntlet ii on Wednesdays, where all kinds of people drink cheap beer and watch fag porn on tv's. She'll be goofing off all spring and then is on her way to an exciting career in film producing. She's decidedly not anti-capitalist but is aware of the flaws in the system.  

TOBARON WAXMAN (Camera, cameo, lighting)
Who says "my plumage is my triumph" 

ALIZA SHAPIRO (Casting, Actor)
Aliza is a performer, architect/designer, and producer of events and other stuff based in Boston, MA. You can find out more at www.truthserum.org.

DANIEL LANG/LEVITSKY (Costumer, Extra)
Makes costumes as ‘boychic’, and in other lives is a puppeteer and rabblerouser based in nyc. sailors & uprisings? irresistible to a red-diaper grandbaby with an old-left obsession. or to a gender-skeptical sometime fem who can’t stop picking things up on the street and making other things out of them. i heart jews against the occupation/nyc, the suck my treyf gender crew, and all the vermontniks. coming soon: www.meansof.net.

KATE HUH (Actor)
Kate Huh is a NYC based artist/activist. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and Europe since 1982.
She is the creator of the zine "Rebel Fux!" (which she has published since 1997). Her film titles include; "Rebel Fux! The Movie" 2000, "Market This" (produced in collaboration with the Paper Tiger TV collective) 2001, and "Punk Ass Kid"
2003. Her work appears in "Time Capsule, a Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists" published by Creative Time 1995 and "Dangerous Families" published by Hawthorn Press 2004.

JAMES DIAMOND (Actor)
is the armwrestler that wins.Although he could easily be the next huge mainstream sex hero/actor he is a reasonably-obscure, semi-famous inter-disciplinary artist working mainly in the fields of paint, music,indie film or life in general.You might want to check out his shorts etc?.hirethisartist@hotmail.com

JEFF STROKER (Actor)
Jeff has performed with the Chicago Kings since 2001, and can be seen in films Pretty Ladies, The Undergrad, and Saddle Up Cowboi.

CHRISTIAN VARGAS (Actor)
Christian is studying Film And Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, and is father to a Super 8 short titled "Road Rash" which may or may not be coming to you local queer film fest. He's also interested in helping yarn self identify as objects that symbolically represent tools for transitioning.

TRAVIS (Actor)
Travis lives in Boston and keeps busy with riding his bike, skateboarding, playing music and planning his next adventure.

TRA HURST (Actor)
Tra is an activist, artist, and body-centered psychotherapist. While ze's not shooting at condos on hir stomach in the middle of Lake Champlain, ze can be found in Brooklyn learning to play piano, studying maps, or doing some other nerdy activity.

STORMY KNIGHT (Actor)

JAIMES MAYHEW (Actor)

BUG (Director of Photography)

SINI (First Assistant Director)

DASHA GAVRYLOVA (Still Photographer, Actor)

NATASHA SAPERSHTEYN (Make-up, and Production assistant)

CARISSA TRENHOLM (Costume Assistant)

JOYCELYN DAVIS (Costumer)

WENDELL (Actor)

GINA (Actor, craft)

ANN

TENNESEE

(more bios coming soon, email to gowithflo@mac.com)