Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Directed byMichael Mabbott
Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
Written byMichael Mabbott
Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
Alison Duke
Produced byAmanda Burt
Sam Dunn
Michael Mabbott
Scot McFadyen
Justine Pimlott
StarringJackie Shane
CinematographyAdam Crosby
Edited byMike Munn
Music byMurray Lightburn
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • March 9, 2024 (2024-03-09) (SXSW)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and released in 2024.[1] The film is a portrait of Jackie Shane, the pioneering transgender singer who was a prominent figure in the Toronto music scene in the 1960s before virtually disappearing from public life after 1971.[2]

The film was based in large part on telephone interviews that Mabbott conducted with Shane over the year before her death in 2019.[1] As her death precluded the ability to videotape any new interviews in person, and very little video footage of Shane from the 1960s survives, the producers depict her in the film through the use of animation, generated by superimposing photos of Shane over rotoscoped footage of contemporary drag performer Makayla Couture.[3]

Production on the film was announced in 2022.[4]

The film premiered at the 2024 SXSW festival,[5] and is slated to have its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[6] It is also slated to screen as the closing film of the 2024 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Vlessing, Etan (March 8, 2024). "SXSW: Jackie Shane Disappearance Mystery Solved in 'Any Other Way' Documentary". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  2. ^ Calum Slingerland, "Jackie Shane Documentary to Make World Premiere at SXSW". Exclaim!, February 8, 2024.
  3. ^ Michael Talbot-Haynes, "Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story". Film Threat, March 10, 2024.
  4. ^ Andrew Jeffrey, "Telefilm names 22 features for $3.8M theatrical doc fund". Playback, August 22, 2022.
  5. ^ Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Four Canadian world premieres added to SXSW lineup". Playback, July 8, 2024.
  6. ^ Jennie Punter, "Hot Docs Lineup: ‘Luther: Never Too Much’ to Open Toronto Nonfiction Fest Amid Mass Programmer Exit". Variety, March 26, 2024.
  7. ^ Dana Gee, "Adrianne & the Castle official opener for this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival". Vancouver Sun, April 3, 2024.

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