NO ORDINARY MAN

NO ORDINARY MAN

Portraits
Spotlight on Canada
84 min

For decades, the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the sensationalistic story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. Now that history gets re-interrogated by trans artists as they try to reimagine Tipton’s life through acts of performance, reclaiming him as a trans icon. Filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt join Tipton’s adopted son to reckon with Tipton’s complicated and contested legacy. No Ordinary Man “is an elegant riff on a classic progression that arrives at something transcendent.” (Indiewire)

Watch an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Director Chase Joynt and Subject Marquise Vilsón.

DOC NYC Live event: Happened on Monday, Nov. 16 at 3 ET on Facebook Live– The life of jazz musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton is explored by filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt with memoirist Thomas Page McBee (Man Alive).  

Director: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt, Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Executive Producer: Marc Côté, Lindsey Dryden, Marc Côté, Lindsey Dryden
Producer: Sarah Spring, Sarah Spring
Writer: Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac, Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac
Cinematographer: Léna Mill-Reuillard, Léna Mill-Reuillard
Editor: Aisling Chin-Yee, Aisling Chin-Yee
Music: Billy Tipton, Rich Aucoin, Billy Tipton, Rich Aucoin
Language: English, English
Country: Canada, Canada
Year: 2020
Sales Agent: Radiant Films
Family
International
LGBTQIA+
Music
Other
Women Directors

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