San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
Founded in 1997 by Christopher Lee and Alex Austin, and originally named Tranny Fest, SFTFF was North America’s first transgender film festival. We are the world’s longest running transgender film festival. We organized our first festival for the same reason so many other marginalized communities have organized film festivals: the absence of authentic representations of our lives and experiences in the mainstream commercial media.
Basic Information
- Category: film festival
- Website: http://sftff.org/
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- Founded: 1997 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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- Recorded profile date: 2026-04-22
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Founded in 1997 by Christopher Lee and Alex Austin, and originally named Tranny Fest, SFTFF was North America’s first transgender film festival. We are the world’s longest running transgender film festival. We organized our first festival for the same reason so many other marginalized communities have organized film festivals: the absence of authentic representations of our lives and experiences in the mainstream commercial media.
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