RESISTANCE/RESILIANCE:
A COMMUNITY PANEL WITH
GUEST ARTIST DANIEL SEA

SAT MAY 6 | 12:45 PM | ARK LODGE CINEMAS
AVAILABLE IN-PERSON ONLY

Join us for a lively, informative, and thought-provoking panel discussion with our guest artist, Daniel Sea, where we will be addressing some of the current issues affecting the trans community. With trans rights being stripped all across the country, it’s imperative that we connect with one another and build resistance through the practice of filmmaking and involvement with local organizations. If you’re wondering - “How can I fight against anti-trans legislature?” or “How can we build resilience while still caring for one another and nourishing ourselves?” - this panel is for you. Immediately follows our Resistance/Resilience shorts block and tickets for that block can be PURCHASED HERE.

DANIEL SEA BIO

Daniel Sea (he/they) is a trans non-binary actor, musician and artist. Sea has worked in film, theater and TV series. They played the first recurring transmasculine role on television, appearing from 2006-2009 as Max in Showtime’s The L Word. In 2022, he revised his role as Max for the current iteration of the L Word: Generation Q. They acted in films such as John Cameron Mitchell’s “Shortbus”, and Barbara Albert’s film “The Dead and The Living/Die Lebenden.”
In collaboration Marissa Lobô, Jota Mombaça, Juliana dos Santos, and with participation from artist Ani Gonzaga, and activist Sonia Guajajara, Sea was a part of creating the theater piece “Ghost Times/Decolonizing Teatro Mundi”, at the Brüt Theater in Vienna, Austria.
Sea is co-writer, producer and songwriter on“La La La Little Shows”, a decolonial children’s sci- fi series, which includes animation, music performance, narrative storytelling and interviews with artists. This show centers BIPOC and Queer characters and artists.
As a conceptual artist, Sea works with interdisciplinary memoir, engaging in processes such as research-based performance, writing, music, drawing, video and photography. Prior to their work acting in mainstream tv and film, Sea came of age as an artist as a part of the queer punk, art and activist scenes of the San Francisco Bay Area, California in the 1990’s. His work transverses from the queer vanguard to the mainstream, intervening on pop culture, infecting the mainstream with a political and magical queer and trans agenda.

"Very much looking forward to my participation in this fantastic and historically groundbreaking festival. I admire your programming and filmmaking and curation, and TRANSlations festival itself for its history of bringing trans stories to the screen as one of the longest running trans festivals."
-DANIEL SEA