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Getting High

 Should people with addiction be forced into treatment? Getting High, shows how my family's collision with drugs and alcohol connects to our society's deep confusions over getting high. It is currently in production and has received support from ITVS, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, and Pomona College. To learn more and help get this important story out, visit the project website.

 

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

Watch my Emmy-winning documentary about the first known transgender uprising on home video. It is now available for purchase from Frameline.

Read reviews and learn more about SCREAMING QUEENS at the film's web site: www.screamingqueensmovie.com

 

SCREAMING QUEENS is a production of Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker in association with KQED and ITVS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

   
   
out of the shadow Talented, successful, happily married:  the writer Rose Cohen had risen from the tenements to have it all in 1920s New York.  So why did she have an affair and then drown herself in the East River?  A feature length screenplay on the life of the immigrant Jewish author. To learn more, please email me.