Happy Birthday, Marsha! Trailer

[@janethalken8269]

Who else heard of this from the new yorker article? I just failed the answer on the celebrity question because I'd never heard of MPJ before! Xo

[@maunster3414]

Looks like an excellent movie!

[@zairapadilla9791]

Yo why am I just seeing this almost a year later!?

[@roisinbryson5845]

I've tried to find it everywhere

[@wetasspaddington]

on amazon :)))

[@donniesanectdollsandmore389]

How and where can i see this movie in its entirety?

[@ruethedaycarly]

amazon prime

[@b.a.tstudios3444]

Song name?

[@roccoz2231]

Saw this on Prime. It looked like a rough cut of an unfinished short film....which is basically what it is. And it has absolutely no thematic connection to the documentary that Reina (falsely) accused of stealing from her. "The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson" is masterful. This is an amateurish student film.

[@youngfunny1824]

May be a "cheap student film" but somehow it got it's own exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum... It's pretty good in my opinion.

[@roccoz2231]

@@youngfunny1824 One museum's virtue signaling isn't going to make the film better. Nor will it change the film's gross historical inaccuracy. Marsha wasn't at the Stonewall celebrating her birthday the night of the riots. She wasn't there at all. Neither was Sylvia Rivera. Marsha didn't arrive until after the riots started and Sylvia was passed out on drugs somewhere....

[@autumnwilding7114]

@@roccoz2231 this was not meant to be a documentary when they found out they couldn’t stand up against the funding of a Netflix documentary by a white CIS gay man they decided to go on a more narrative route, yeah the budget is Lower, gee wiz I could never in a thousand years imagine why that would happen??????? Seems to me your main issue is with the budget and honestly that usually the last thing I find interesting about any piece or art whether or not I judge it to be good or bad

[@roccoz2231]

@@autumnwilding7114 Tourmaline couldn't get funding for her Marsha documentary because: a) She had no skills or track record as a filmmaker; b) She called herself an "historian" and a "Marsha scholar" but couldn't even get basic biographical data about her subject correct, such as the depiction in this video of Marsha celebrating her birthday at the Stonewall on the first night of the riots; c) She was caught stealing copyrighted archival footage without securing the proper clearances; d) She claimed to have "discovered" archival footage of Sylvia Rivera that was originally broadcast in a PBS documentary back in the 1990s. No funders were ever going to touch her project with a 50-ft. pole, as this was clearly Amateur Hour. Just because Tourmaline is black and trans doesn't automatically mean she's talented, or that she's entitled to make a documentary about a black and trans icon. David France, on the other hand, was an established filmmaker who actually played by the rules and secured the proper clearances and made a wonderful documentary that centered Marsha's life and work. Tourmaline was just using Marsha's legacy to market herself. I'm not concerned about the budget for "Happy Birthday, Marsha!". The issue is Tourmaline trying to pass off what is clearly an unfinished, low-quality rough cut as a complete product. You can tell they ran out of money and cobbled together what little footage they had -- while inexplicably editing footage of the real Marsha into the film to pad its low running time. There's a reason why David's project was successful while Tourmaline's project was never finished, and it has nothing to do with race or gender identity.

[@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385]

oh shut up you pillock