CELEBRATING JUNE 28TH WITH CINEMA AND CULTURE

On June 27th, in a free pass screening at Bilborock, Zinegoak will premier in Basque Country the documentary “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson”, fresh out from Tribeca and before its premiere on Netflix.

Zinegoak keeps its commitment with quality cinema and culture, to celebrate, vindicate and to make visible all the programmes and events related with sexual, identity and gender divesity that take place throughout the year.

Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Storme DeLaverie or Miss Major  are just a few names not so often related to the Stonewall events which are the origin of the celebration of the LGTBQ Pride. s

On June 28th, 1969, trans women, drag queens, male prostitutes and all the clientell of that bar at New York’s Greenwich Village,  decided to face the police who repeatedly abused their power in the numerous raids that carried out in the place.

That’s how a series of spontaneous uprisings became the beggining of the Pride Day, nowadays celebrated all over the world.

But these heroes, migrants, blacks, latinas, many prostitutes, faded away from the tale. Even cinema reduced their role to the minimum. The latets Stonewall film, directed by Roland Emercih, was accused by the LGTBQ community of “whiten and masculize” history.

So, precisely to keep the momory alive of these drags and trans women, Zinegoak proposes the free pass screening of the latest Marsha P. Johnson’s documentary, premiered at Tribeca just a few weeks ago.

In the film “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, the director David France, shows the recent investigation about the activist’s death. Legendary drag queen, Stonewall’s veteran and co-funder of the movement for the transgender rights, her body was found in the Hudson river and her case filed as suicide.

The investigation makes use of archive images, along with interviews, to clarify that the false closing of the case might have deeper motivations that the ones showned then.

Ultimately, this documentary proves its value to know more about the origins of the Pride and to look back to his forgotten heroines and heroes.

The screening belongs to the ZINEGOAK365 Programme that pretends to maintain Zinegoak’s films and activities not confined to the festival official days.