Showing posts with label Namoli Brenette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Namoli Brenette. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
A tweed from the Trans100 by Laverne Cox.
Thank u all.So inspired by u @smartassjen @rebeccakling @coyotegrace @namoli @fakerapper @janetmock #KOKUMO #trans100 twitter.com/Lavernecox/sta…I met Namoli in Nashville. I saw Joe and Coyote Grace at SCC a few years ago, and I'd love to meet all these other great folks too!!
— Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) March 31, 2013
Sunday, October 03, 2010
An interview with singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet, who describes past performances in pigtails and a five-o’clock shadow. -genderfork
October 1, 2010
An interview with singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet, who describes past performances in pigtails and a five-o'clock shadow. -genderfork
I love the song played in the video (Boy in a Dress): "When i was just thirty-three / I looked at me / I could have seen / a girl or a boy in a dress / or a girl / or a boy in a dress"
Here's an excerpt from her bio:
"Webster's defines anomaly as a deviation from the common rule, but look a little farther and you'll find another definition: hard to classify. And that might be the best way to describe musician Namoli Brennet. Brennet was born male and transitioned to female, but like many gender-variant types, she simply identifies as 'trans'."
Monday, October 19, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Trans March! Friday, June 26, 2009
Friday June 26, 2009 the Friday before Pride
Dolores Park, Dolores and 19th Street
Calling all transfolks, friends, allies and admirers!
I love seeing all the folks in this video and also seeing namoli darting in and out. I would love to go, sometime!
Stealth - The Movie
- It has a "transgender writer, producer, director," Marlo Bernier (who does not look very fem in the clips after this post)
- It has a "transgender star" in Alexandra Billings.
- And a "transgender person doing the score and music," Namoli Brennet (who I met at an OutCentarl benefit in 2007. www.namolibrennet.com )
Marlo Bernier's directorial debut, Stealth, explores life as a Transgender
Principal Photography begins April 4th on Marlo Bernier's transgender tale, Stealth, which spotlights both the unfortunate intolerance of society and the reinforcing power of acceptance.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPRLog (Press Release) – Mar 28, 2009 – Principal Photography begins April 4th on Marlo Bernier's transgender tale, Stealth, which spotlights both the unfortunate intolerance of society and the reinforcing power of acceptance.
The film, shooting in and around Los Angeles, California, is a Jackie Frost Films production in association with Scorpio Rising Films and funded by Mississippi Films, Susan Smith and Jon Lipitz.
Award-winning transgender actress, singer and renowned Professor of The Viewpoints at California State University and The Steppenwolf Theater, Alexandra Billings (Grey’s Anatomy) takes the lead as Veronica Terranova alongside Indie actresses Jennifer Fontaine (LOOK) and Elizabeth J. Martin (Expired) who complete the ensemble in roles as her two sisters.
Stealth steers audiences through the secretive and shocking events surrounding transgender Veronica Terranova. Sitting alone in a dark hotel room, a dead and dirty politician by her side, Veronica must make the difficult decision to call Jeannine, her younger sister, who has always been there for her. Panic stricken, Jeannine secretly calls their eldest sister, Celia, the only one who can truly help...but will she?
A powerful mix of sisterly love and abject rejection, Stealth is an insightful and candid look at how one family handles transgenderism. Marlo reveals, “...having lived my entire life as Mark, I know this world all to well. I am both honored and humbled to find myself in the company of such talent and am committed to delivering a work which will offer an understanding of the of the transgender experience.”
Behind-the-scenes, 4-time Outmusic award nominated and visionary transgender singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet will provide a haunting score, and award-winning documentarian Andre Enzensberger will lend his eye as the Director of Photography.
Stealth marks the second collaboration of the writing/producing team Marlo Bernier and Jennifer Fontaine. The team’s first endeavor ‘The Last Time We Were…’ garnered the duo a Silver Remi at WorldFest Houston and played to packed screenings at the Los Angeles International Shorts Fest and the Beloit International Film Fest. They currently have 5 feature scripts in various stages of development, including ‘Glass Houses’ which has attached actors Pruitt Taylor Vince, Austin Pendleton and Jason Connery, and is currently in the packaging stage.# # #Founded in 2001, by husband and wife team Jennifer Fontaine and Kerem Hanci, Scorpio Rising Films is dedicated to spotlighting new and emerging talent with visionary ideas. This duo remains committed to supportive collaboration with devoted and impassioned artists, encouraging original and inspired material.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Namoli Brenette sing Thorn In Your Side in this video
Google Alerts did it again for me. I found this post on Susan Norfleet's Fair Lady blog. She had some links that lead me to a upcoming movie HEARTLAND USA, then qWaves, which has the video below which has Namoli's song that was in Susan's blog.
www.namolibrennet.com
Brennet’s music is featured in the upcoming documentary film Heartland USA, from the husband and husband team of Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer (www.qwaves.com). Some other great people you should know about. Wow … I feel like Army Archerd! I mean Perez Hilton!Just follow some of those links and enjoy!
www.namolibrennet.com
Monday, December 17, 2007
We Belong - a high school movie project story by Joe Wilson
Namoli Brenette sang her song We Belong as the title song of this movie. So cool!
A film by Joe Wilson. We Belong
This is the story of two rural teens who had the courage to stand up to bigotry and intolerance in their schools – and the determination to tell their stories to the world.Edit 12/12/2013: The video is gone from Current TV's website. Much of this video was incorporated into movie OUT in the SILENCE.
Homophobia is one of the last “permissible” forms of prejudice. Its effects are especially acute for youth, who often suffer alone and in silence. Two thirds of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth experience harassment or violence in school, and the suicide rate for this group is four times the average.
When C.J. Bills is gay bashed in the school locker room, then arrested for disorderly conduct because he protests to an administrator about the harassment he has experienced, he decides to fight back by making a documentary about discrimination. With his family’s help, he also initiates an investigation by the state human rights commission and shames the school district into developing an anti-bullying and diversity training program.
C.J.’s documentary project also leads him to Tim Dahle, a former high school student who challenged the years of anti-gay harassment he suffered in a neighboring town. In Tim’s case, the school district that failed to protect him agreed to one of the largest sexual harassment settlements in history, sending a signal to school districts around the country that such behavior can be costly.
We Belong demonstrates that young people have the power to change their communities and the world, and that helping youth to tell their stories, in their own way and on camera, is enlightening, empowering, and effective.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Transgender singer songwriter Namoli Brenette in Nashville tonight!
Namoli Brenette was at the SingOut Benefit for Nashville's OutCentral (Nashville's first GLBTQIF Cultural Center.) I really enjoyed the show and especially her part. I would not have ever guessed she was "transgendered," if she had not said so. Katie was out for a beer or a cigarette or something, when Namoli told us. When Katie returned, I told her, and she did not believe me.
When I got home I Googled her and found she had been on GenderTalk September 22, 2003 (4 years ago today,) and they played her music again in December 1, 2003.
I purchased 3 of her CDs at the show. They are on my iPod already!
One thing I did notice was that she had the same sad eyes, that I had seen in so many of the trans-men at SCC. I wonder why?
Visit Namoli’s website at www.NamoliBrennet.com and her MySpace page www.MySpace.com/BamoliBrennet Her website plays an assortment of her music very nicely. Well done!
They played the song Boy in a Dress on Gendertalk and I found these word for the song on her web site. I read them and almost immediately burst into tears. Powerful song, but the CD is no longer available, but I downloaded the song from iTunes. I'll probably get the rest of the songs tomorrow. :)
Boy in a Dress
Boy in a Dress
When I was a little girl
free as a bird
painting my world
I filled it with colors like birthday balloons
When I was seven years old
out on the road
I once was called - a girl
“you can tell by the way that she throws”
When I was only nine
doing just fine
stay in the lines
fill in the dots with the picture you see
but I never saw no picture like me
When I was only thirteen
I looked at me
I could have seen
a girl or a boy in a dress or a girl
boy in a dress or a girl or a boy in a dress
What I call hard
seems so damn easy for everybody else
Fifteen became twenty-one
man, I was gone
but I had some fun
when I was not passed out on somebody’s lawn
Oh no...
Twenty-one turned twenty-five
turned twenty-nine
bided my time
trying to hide from the things I could feel
hide from the things I could feel
I could hide
What I call hard
seems so damn easy for everybody else
When I was just thirty-three
I looked at me
I could have seen
a girl or a boy in a dress, or a girl
boy in a dress or a girl or a boy in a dress
or a girl, or a boy in a dress
or a girl.
Well done girl! You are there, and you rock! I am so proud of you! Say "Hi," to Holly for me.
www.namolibrennet.com
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