OPENING NIGHT: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
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OPENING NIGHT: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

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OPENING NIGHT: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

OPENING NIGHT: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

2024 MQFF Opening Night
Thu
14
Thu 14 Nov 6:30 PM
Standby

ACMI Cinema 1
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
99 Mins | Canada
November

Presented in partnership with Prime Video.


Step into the magic of MQFF’s Opening Night with Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story and an RnB-themed celebration at ACMI. Join Melbourne's LGBTQIA+ community for a night of vibrant entertainment featuring DJs, a lively dance-floor, and plenty of hospitality.

Catch one of two screenings at 6:30 pm or 9:15 pm and enjoy a full experience with pre-and-post-show music, food, and drinks.

Red carpet moments and photo ops await, along with a chance to meet this year’s MQFF stars!

Refreshments and food will be available for purchase throughout ACMI’s bar, café, and foyer spaces from 5 pm till late.


MELBOURNE PREMIERE

Chances are you’ve never heard of singer Jackie Shane, a rising star in 1950s Nashville who became a sensation in ‘60s Toronto, with a huge hit single in Any Other Way (“Tell her that I'm happy / Tell her that I'm gay / Tell her I wouldn't have it / Any other way”). However, Shane was to disappear mysteriously from public view for nigh-on 40 year

From the producers of the Emmy Award-winning Hip-Hop Evolution (2016) and Executive Producer Elliot Page comes this stirring, Frameline “Out in the Silence Award”-winning documentary which shares the extraordinary story of a pioneering Black trans performer of exceptional talent and stage presence, who in no way hid her queerness and refused to be anyone but her authentic self.

Sandra Caldwell – who recently shared her own remarkable, previously invisible trans herstory in Disclosure (2020) – and Makayla Couture give testimony to Shane’s inspirational significance and, beneath beautiful, painterly rotoscoping, embody her too, as we hear from Shane herself in never-before-heard phone conversations. We’re also treated to live recordings which leave no doubt that Jackie Shane was one of the greatest soul performers of the 20th century – period.

This screening is sold out—tickets available for  9:15pm screening in Cinema 1. 


November

ACMI Cinema 1

Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000