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First Run Features presents

Tim Wolff's New LGBTQI Documentary

I'm Moshanty -
Do You Love Me?

Begins Streaming December 11 on Amazon
 
First Run Features is proud to announce the streaming release of Tim Wolff's new documentary I'm Moshanty - Do You Love Me on December 11, 2020.

I’m Moshanty - Do You Love Me? is a musical tribute to the late, legendary South Pacific recording artist and transgender activist Moses Moshanty Tau and the LGBTQI community of Papua New Guinea. With their lives still haunted by colonial-era sodomy laws and deadly religious bigotry, Moshanty stands as a beacon of hope for the transgender and LGBTQI community of the entire South Pacific.

I'm Moshanty - Do You Love Me?
A film by Tim Wolff
57 minutes | color | 2020
In English and Tok Pisin with English subtitles

Streaming Premiere: December 11, 2020
Tim Wolff''s previous film was
More About the Film

The world’s second largest island, Papua New Guinea is one of the most dangerous places to be a woman, with 70% reporting that they experienced domestic violence and sexual violence before the age of 15. Sorcery accusation killings and family violence take the lives of thousands of women every year and HIV infection rates are the highest in the Pacific. Transgender women are most often homeless, unemployed, denied education and medical care and living under the constant threat of robbery, rape and murder.

I’m Moshanty - Do You Love Me? is a musical tribute to the late, legendary South Pacific recording artist and transgender activist Moses Moshanty Tau and the LGBTQI community of Papua New Guinea. With their lives still haunted by colonial-era sodomy laws and deadly religious bigotry, Moshanty stands as a beacon of hope for the transgender and LGBTQI community of the entire South Pacific.

Filmed over a weekend in the fall of 2017 and including her last live performances, the film celebrates the transgender activist with a mother's heart, teeth of gold and a voice like a coronet. Hear her journey from a tiny Motuan village to the top of the regional music industry. In her last interview, she shares her personal truth and her greatest desires as a woman with her millions of fans.

In 2017, a diagnosis of throat cancer threatens to silence the activist and a failed surgery leaves her unable to sing. Finally, an entire nation, from ordinary citizens to Ministers of Parliament, is asked to grieve for their brightest light and their most heavenly voice. Who could ever sing the songs of Moshanty?
About the Filmmaker: Tim Wolff

Since 2013, filmmaker Tim Wolff has been documenting the lives of LGBTQ persons throughout Asia, Central America, India and the Middle East for the U.S. State Department and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His mission is to document the humanity of LGBTQ citizens and activists in locations where their existence is denied by their government.  

"In October of 2017, on the last 2 days of a project to document LGBTQ persons in Papua New Guinea, I met a legend. She was the only public figure willing to identify herself as a transgender woman and I was there, as it turned out, to record her personal truth the day before she was hospitalized with throat cancer. She would tragically die on her 50th birthday, six months later. I was planning a return to PNG to shoot for weeks when I heard the news. I had roughly 3 hours of my own footage and various youtube-sourced audio and video recordings with which to properly honor this activist hero and music legend. I’m Moshanty - Do You Love Me? is a thorough curation of all that remains of her life and work. She knew her time was running out, I believe. It was great fortune to have the chance to meet her and an absolute honor to preserve her personal truth as a transgender woman for her millions of fans."
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Kelly Hargraves or Julianne Augustine



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