In the meantime, Alexandra walks the streets and picks up Raznik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian cab driver who is married but frequently pays to perform oral sex on pre-operative trans women. Alexandra mistakenly guesses that she’s finished with him for sleeping around, which sets Sin Dee off on the trail of Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan) the “white fish” (slang for a white cisgendered woman) he has been cheating with. Set on Christmas Eve, Sin Dee is happy to be out of jail after a 28-day sentence and has a secret she wants to share with Alexandra about her pimp/boyfriend Chester (James Ransone). The script was co-crafted with the lead actors and draws on their own experiences and anecdotes of street work and survival around trade, transactions, drugs, pimps, friendship, betrayal, violence and care. It is filmed on a super low budget using a $8 phone app that delivers a close up, social realist edge to a story that crosses the boundaries of drama and documentary. Tangerine offers a chance to revisit these issues, and is receiving similar levels of attention. The legacy of the film can be measured in its influence at the time and it remains an important reference point in courses on LGBT history and queer studies today. Its popularity was far reaching and it drew significant attention from feminist and queer scholars offering different interpretations. Paris is Burning garnered widespread positive critical appraisal and won a Sundance Film Festival Jury prize.
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