{"id":24898,"date":"2022-08-11T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitchen.com\/?p=24898"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:50:25","slug":"valiant-pictures-director-em-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.techsystintel.com\/press_kitchen_dev\/valiant-pictures-director-em-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Valiant Pictures Director Em Weinstein Is Making Space for Masculine Fluidity, via Into More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aumiekjrpq.cloudimg.io\/v7\/_intoprodweb_\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Green-Photo-Collage-Spring-Facebook-Cover-39.png?&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;crop=faces&amp;fit=crop&amp;gravity=face&amp;w=1556&amp;h=810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In director Em Weinstein\u2019s 2019 short film\u00a0In France, Michelle is a Man\u2019s Name, a trans son tries to find common ground with his rural, working-class father. It doesn\u2019t exactly work out: although Mike\u2019s (Ari Damasco) dad is respectful and kind to his son, he\u2019s still stuck in a rigid definition of what it means to be a man. And in the space of only 12 minutes, we get to see an all-too-familiar discomfort rise up between the two after the father brings his son to a strip club in what he thinks is an affirming rite of passage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The celebrated short film gets to the heart of what it means to be misunderstood even by people who are trying their best to be there for you and still falling short, something that every transmasc has had to deal with. It\u2019s a striking example of what films about the trans experience made by us and for us can really do, and what they can teach us about our own moments of liminality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>INTO\u00a0spoke with Weinstein about the short film, and their plans for the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adbridg_ad_adbinarticle_1\" class=\"ad-300\" data-adbridg-ad-class-ctr=\"1\" data-adbridg-ad-class-loaded=\"adb-inarticle\" data-adbridg-phase=\"detected@3650.5ms;gpt_define@3666.8ms;gpt_render:null@30615.6ms\" data-google-query-id=\"CKKZlfCcv_kCFcyIfwQdCd0Jiw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4564944\/INTO\/article_3__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>INTO: What set are you on right now? Can you share?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EM WEINSTEIN: I\u2019m directing two episodes of \u201cThe L Word: Generation Q\u201d It\u2019s been a very like emotionally beautiful experience for me because the show meant a lot to me when I was 14, 15, in high school. I\u2019d go to my friend\u2019s house to watch it. So it\u2019s really cool to be able to, as an adult who\u2019s fully embodied in their queerness, come back and work on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s interesting because with \u201cGeneration Q\u201d the show is trying to address all the stuff it got really wrong the first time, specifically the trans stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t give away too much, but I think my episodes are gonna really go there in a way that I\u2019m really excited about. But I won\u2019t I don\u2019t want to over-promise in case anything changes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adbridg_ad_adbinarticle_2\" class=\"ad-300\" data-adbridg-ad-class-ctr=\"2\" data-adbridg-ad-class-loaded=\"adb-inarticle\" data-adbridg-phase=\"detected@3650.6ms;gpt_define@3667.6ms;gpt_render:null@90039.1ms\" data-google-query-id=\"CNu1vYydv_kCFZmApwodg5EMpg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4564944\/INTO\/article_4__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I love your short, \u201cIn France, Michelle is a Man\u2019s Name.\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0I\u2019m just wondering if the short was based on specifically your experience or sort of this fictionalized composite?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit of both. The actor who plays Mike in the movie, Ari Damasco, is my best friend. He came out as a trans man when he was about 19 or 20. It took me a lot longer to come out in terms of my trans masculinity, and I had a very different relationship to it. The movie was kind of about both of our experiences, and also a slightly lately fictional trans man that we could use to tell the story. I wanted it to be complicated and messy and nuanced, but at the same time, I think one of the difficulties in in telling trans stories is that there\u2019s so much that we haven\u2019t gotten to say yet. And there\u2019s so little representation out there. I wanted to get this slice of life moment that\u2019s a distilled moment that gives clues as to what his broader world is like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/393435689?h=4b0decd653\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s always this binary thing of like, you\u2019re either kicked out of the house and you have no relationship with your parents or your parents are like totally liberal or whatever, but there\u2019s so much nuance within that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll just speak from my experience, being in the first few months of like, \u201cpassing\u201d whatever that means. It\u2019s not a thing I thought about very much before it started happening, and it wasn\u2019t really a goal of mine. I just wanted\u00a0 to find myself in queer spaces. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with passing as a goal, but for me, it just wasn\u2019t one of my number one goals. And yet the experience of passing is so strange, because you\u2019re suddenly welcomed into this really intense club of manhood in which, like, you\u2019re acknowledged in a way that like you\u2019ve never been acknowledged before, and there\u2019s this very tender, deep longing for connection that I often feel some cis men don\u2019t have words to express. So it sometimes ends up as this extremely toxic thing because they\u00a0 just don\u2019t know how to communicate it. Or there\u2019s also the feeling of like, \u201cyou\u2019re a man now, this is what it means to be a man,\u201d and it\u2019s like that\u2019s not what it means to be a man necessarily, especially if you weren\u2019t raised with people seeing you as a man. I can get very like very preachy about it but like, I really do believe that like trans masculinity is one of our only hopes for healing masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;There\u2019s this very tender, deep longing for connection that I often feel some cis men don\u2019t have words to express.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, because we\u2019re the ones who actually are willing to have conversations about what masculinity\u00a0means.\u00a0It\u2019s not like a threat to simply talk about it, which I find like, with cis men, they just get so scared and fragile if you try to talk about it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adbridg_ad_adbinarticle_4\" class=\"ad-300\" data-adbridg-ad-class-ctr=\"4\" data-adbridg-ad-class-loaded=\"adb-inarticle\" data-adbridg-phase=\"detected@3650.7ms;gpt_define@3668.8ms;gpt_render:null@91614.6ms\" data-google-query-id=\"CMCcl42dv_kCFYuDpwods5MAow\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4564944\/INTO\/article_6__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, fears around, pleasing and performing for other men specifically. Especially when it comes to sexuality. Fear turns into violence so quickly. When so much of it really is just like fear and fragility. It\u2019s just funny. Like, cis men are affirming each other\u2019s genders all the time. Like I get called \u201cbro\u201d and \u201cman\u201d now. And in the movie, I think it\u2019s a similar moment around this like lap dance, where it\u2019s sort of like the father\u2019s afraid of being emasculated and so he pushes his son into this position of what he thinks manhood is. And sharing his version of masculinity is actually something that could potentially really heal his father, but he doesn\u2019t share it. And he\u2019s able to sort of see all of what\u2019s happening in this world between these men that they\u2019re not able to see for themselves and there\u2019s this true pain to it, but also like, I hope it comes across that Mike is not broken by that pain. Even if it even if it\u2019s even if it saddens him and even if it hurts, he sees it for what it is. He sees the limitations of his other parents which is also so much a part of growing up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>They don\u2019t know how to talk about things without it becoming conflict. Like, growing up I felt like the only acceptable emotion for me to have was anger, because that\u2019s all men are allowed to feel. So I was just like really mad all the time. But later you learn it\u2019s not even a real emotion. It\u2019s a mask for other sh*t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so funny because now that I\u2019m out as trans and looking back on my childhood, I had all these anger issues like you\u2019re saying, because it was like the only way you could express yourself. It\u2019s so healing to be able to work to work through that stuff. And there are so many men that I\u2019m like, \u201cOh God, like, please go to therapy.\u201d Because it\u2019s possible to heal. There can be an understanding of gender as this beautiful spectrum, and it\u2019s actually this coming of age for all of us to figure out where we are on that spectrum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adbridg_ad_adbinarticle_5\" class=\"ad-300\" data-adbridg-ad-class-ctr=\"5\" data-adbridg-ad-class-loaded=\"adb-inarticle\" data-adbridg-phase=\"detected@3650.7ms;gpt_define@3669.4ms;gpt_render:null@92577.3ms\" data-google-query-id=\"CO372o2dv_kCFVeApwodToEBpg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4564944\/INTO\/article_7__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I will say that Mike Mike isn\u2019t fully there yet in the movie. But I think we wanted to tell you the story of where he truly is in his transition, where he\u2019s still trapped in these dynamics around men and it\u2019s very frightening to stand up to them because like, they often express their anger with their bodies, and toward other people\u2019s bodies. So there really is no option. It often feels like, even for me, feeling like I\u2019m still on a journey to like coming into my voice and self, but it\u2019s still really hard for me to stand up to men if they say something toxic if they\u2019re acting toxic. It\u2019s hard to know how to combat that. For Mike in the film, I hope that at the end of the movie the experience can bring him back to having a real conversation with his dad about all of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes that\u2019s the hardest part of those conversations is like, trying to break that like the binary thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also this thing of like, Dad, you\u2019re on the gender spectrum too! I think that\u2019s why, even though I like to call myself trans masculine, I like to use the word nonbinary also because it\u2019s just a reminder that there is no binary, it\u2019s false. Everyone is on a spectrum. I think we as trans people have to fight for our own lives and our own place on the binary. And I totally respect that fight because, God it\u2019s frickin\u2019 hard and no one wants to believe that we\u2019re real. I don\u2019t fault anyone for going all the way to that side of the spectrum of like, drinking beers and getting lap dances with their Dad. But for me, I just want to make room for that fluidity. I hope that there are moments of that in everything I do, and in this movie, which is almost three years old now. It\u2019s lovely that it\u2019s had this long life and I hope more people get to see it. And I also just want more and more trans folks to get to make work on a large scale because no matter what, no one but us can tell our stories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adbridg_ad_adbinarticle_6\" class=\"ad-300\" data-adbridg-ad-class-ctr=\"6\" data-adbridg-ad-class-loaded=\"adb-inarticle\" data-adbridg-phase=\"detected@3650.7ms;gpt_define@3673ms;gpt_render:null@92891.6ms\" data-google-query-id=\"CMG4742dv_kCFQgdYgodaqEPHg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4564944\/INTO\/article_8__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Whenever cis people try it\u2019s so obvious and embarrassing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. But I also I think it\u2019s about forgiving ourselves. Forgiveness is another thing I\u2019m big on. Like, for trans people who took a long time to come out,\u00a0 or maybe they created work that like wasn\u2019t exactly what they meant to say. Like, we\u2019re all figuring it out in real-time. There\u2019s room for that. There\u2019s gonna be failures and mistakes, and there\u2019s room for it. But it\u2019s important to find that support for each other and for other trans creators and to free ourselves up together, even if we make mistakes. And I hope I can do that for more filmmakers and writers and people who want to tell stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View original article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intomore.com\/film\/em-weinstein-making-space-masculine-fluidity\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In director Em Weinstein\u2019s 2019 short film\u00a0In France, Michelle is a Man\u2019s Name, a trans son tries to find common ground with his rural, working-class father. 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