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By Hook or By Crook

Restoration Premiere

Filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House in person
Thu Dec 05, 7:30 pm at Academy Museum
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This ahead-of-its-time low-fi "butch and trans buddy film" about trans friendship and petty crimes, which won numerous jury and audience awards during finally gets its due with a new restoration.

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By Hook or By Crook

Harry Dodge & SIlas Howard
2001
103 min
United States
English
Movie Summary: Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime.
Queer Film LA Says: This ahead-of-its-time low-fi "butch and trans buddy film" about trans friendship and petty crimes, which won numerous jury and audience awards during finally gets its due with a new restoration.

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