SEE & BE SCENE at Frameline47 June 14-24! Celebrate Pride all around San Francisco and Oakland with 11 days of 100+ queer films and spectacular parties. The Tenderloin Museum is a proud community partner of the featured film, Kokomo City.
Both in its unabashed confessional interviews and its propulsive visual style, Kokomo City is an electric portrait of the inner lives of four Black trans sex workers in America. The central quartet — Liyah Mitchell, Dominque Silver, Koko Da Doll, and Daniella Carter — narrate their own specific journeys navigating Blackness, sexuality, and gender while charting their own path to achieving their dreams for the future. Told with a candid vulnerability, their stories deliver unpredictable bouts of humor and raw humanity, packing the film with mile-a-minute insights into their everyday lives and undidactic observations on contemporary social constraints.
Marking the directorial debut of two-time Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer D. Smith, this ferociously cinematic feature announces the arrival of a major new moving-making talent. Behind the camera, Smith is unfettered by stylistic clichés or reductive narratives and steadfast in her bold vision and visual flair. An Audience Award winner at both Sundance and Berlin, Kokomo City obliterates convention by matching the vitality of these women’s stories with its own unique artistic identity. Running time: 73 mins
About Frameline
Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema. As a media arts nonprofit, Frameline’s programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film exhibition event in the world. As a community event with an annual attendance of 60,000+, the Festival is the most prominent and well-attended LGBTQ+ arts program in the Bay Area. Frameline also presents year-round exhibitions, including Frameline Encore, a free film series highlighting diverse, socially relevant works. Year-round programs also include members-only sneak previews and special events, as well as special screenings and events featuring directors, actors and other queer media icons.