A special showing of the film
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” will benefit production of an
independent film by Boise State University communication
professor Heidi Reeder. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” will
be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in the Special Events
Center.
Tickets are $8 and will be
available at the door, which opens at 6:30 p.m. Raffle tickets
will also be sold for a chance to win prizes like Table Rock
gift certificates, Boise River Festival hats and T-shirts and
Boise State athletic event tickets.
Adapted from the critically
acclaimed off-Broadway rock theater hit, “Hedwig” tells
the story of a transgendered rock singer and her search for
fame, freedom and love. The film won two awards at the
Sundance Film Festival: Audience Award Drama and Best
Director.
Reeder will use proceeds from
the event to fund production of “She’s Like a Girl,” a
film about a woman with an intersex condition. A person with
an intersex condition is born with sex chromosomes, external
genitalia or an internal reproductive system that is neither
wholly male nor female. Filming is slated to begin in August.
Reeder became interested in the
subject after reading in a magazine that 13 women have been
prevented from competing in the Olympics because of the
condition; for some, the rejection was their first indication
of an abnormality.
Reeder hopes the film will
spark further thought and dialogue on intersex conditions. “This
story can help us all reflect a little more consciously on
what it means to be male or female,” she said.
Contact
Heidi Reeder
Communication
208 426-2404
Media Contact
Kathleen Craven
communications and marketing
208 426-3275
