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    Jason and Shirley

    Poster of the movie Jason and Shirley
    2015     Comedy-drama    
    USA
    1h 19min

    50 years before RuPaul... there was Jason Holliday. The most fabulous and controversial black queen you've never heard of!

    December 1966, Jason was known throughout the New York pre-Stonewall gay world as the hottest mess around. Shirley Clarke was Jewish, wealthy and a rare female film director of her era to gain national prominence. Shirley invited Jason to her Chelsea Hotel penthouse to film him telling wild stories from his turbulent life, determined to find a groundbreaking "truth" in documentary. This footage became "Portrait of Jason," (1967), and was hailed a masterpiece, as Jason tells stories of racism, homophobia, abuse and prostitution with Shirley urging him towards a tangled emotional breakdown that is unforgettable.

    But what really happened that day? With dreams, musical numbers and graphic emotions, the NEW film "Jason and Shirley" revisits that fateful meeting and blows the lid off this true story of power, destiny and "truth."

    Directed byStephen Winter
    Written byStephen Winter, Sarah Schulman

    Starring

    Mike Bailey-Gates
    Gordon Beeferman
    Jordan Saunders Brooks
    Lee Ann Brown
    Craig Cady
    Lucas Carey
    Claire Christerson
    Peter Cramer
    Eamon Fahey
    Orran Farmer
    Brian Joseph Ferree
    Devon Gallegos
    Sarah Golden
    Nicholas Gorham
    Jack Jackson
    Jesse Kessel
    Carlo Maria
    Anders Nilsson
    Carlo Quispe
    Nick Ruiz
    Justin Sayre
    Sarah Schulman
    Neale Allen Schutler
    Simon Seapony
    Paul Mpagi Sepuya
    Bryan Webster
    Jack Waters
    Josef Von Weikkmann
    + MORE

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