How Not to Date While Trans

2022, 12 minutes
Poster for short comedy starring Nyala Moon. The poster is a close up of Nyala, a black trans woman, walking outside making comical eye contact and smiling at the camera. In a very large yellow capital font, the film title is positioned directly below her face on the bottom half of the poster.
Genre
comedy   short (less than 45 min)  
Keywords/themes
dark comedy   dating  
Media type
film/video  
Country of origin

United States of America

Filming locations

United States of America

Technical specs

Colour

digital

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Images
Poster for short comedy starring Nyala Moon. The poster is a close up of Nyala, a black trans woman, walking outside making comical eye contact and smiling at the camera. In a very large yellow capital font, the film title is positioned directly below her face on the bottom half of the poster.
Description

A break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.

How Not To Date While Trans premiered in 2022 and screened in over 30 festivals. It has won audience and best short awards at Newfest, InsideOut Toronto, Wicked Queer, and Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival.

Frameline. “How Not to Date While Trans.” Accessed September 28, 2023. https://www.frameline.org/films/frameline46/how-not-to-date-while-trans.
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