The Dazey Phase Scoops Sundance Winning Trans Doc ‘Desire Lines’: ‘We Have Always Been Here, and We Always Will Be’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga New York-based production, sales and distribution company The Dazey Phase has picked up Sundance and Thessaloniki winner “Desire Lines,” Variety has found out exclusively.
The company will be shopping it at Cannes’ Marché du Film. The hybrid doc, directed by Jules Rosskam, examines trans masculine sexuality and the taboos that surround it.
It was produced by Full Spectrum Features and MamSir Productions in association with 521 Films. “I’m always interested in experimenting with form,” said Rosskam. “I am the kind of filmmaker who finds a new form for each film I make because I strongly believe that form and content co-create one another.
If I tried to make a film where the content was asking audiences to let go of binary ways of thinking, but the form was operating from within a binary, I don’t think it would be as effective.” The film has already been awarded the Thessaloniki Silver Alexander Film Forward Award and Sundance NEXT Special Jury Award. “I have not been surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response from trans and queer audiences, but I have been by the positive responses from cis straight audiences,” added Rosskam. “So many (cis straight) people have come up to me after screenings and thanked me for the film.
