NO ORDINARY MAN

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

Executive Producer: Marc Côté, Lindsey Dryden

Producer: Sarah Spring

Writer: Aisling Chin-Yee, Amos Mac

Cinematographer: Léna Mill-Reuillard

Editor: Aisling Chin-Yee

Music: Billy Tipton, Rich Aucoin

Language: English

Country: Canada

Year: 2020

Sales Agent: Radiant Films

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International

LGBTQIA+

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NO ORDINARY MAN

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