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Vera Drew
Recent Nominations:
The Gotham Awards 2024 – Breakthrough Director (Vera Drew)
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The Indie Awards 2024 – Best Narrative Feature
The Indie Awards 2024 – Outstanding Storytelling Craft
The Indie Awards 2024 – Outstanding Technical Achievement
Early Winner: Narrative Features Committee Renegade Award
Featured in mid-year Best of 2024 lists in Variety, RogerEbert.com, The Film Stage, Mashable, Paste & more.
What Is This film about?
Damn if this reviewer knows in the way he would like to know and understand for writing a film review and related articles. So, out of respect for this publication’s patrons, visitors and the like, he resorted to an alternate review-article format based on compositing reviews and articles from other sources and media. There is a lot happening in this film that transcends trans and those with an open mind, this reviewer believes, will pick up on that – though it may take more than one viewing.
– Tim Grierson of RogerEbert.com. “THE PEOPLE’S JOKER has been hailed as a landmark in trans visibility.” Telling the story of an unnamed aspiring comedian (director and co-writer Vera Drew) who lives in a Gotham City in which unsanctioned humor has been outlawed, “The People’s Joker” has been described as a playful plunder of Batman’s iconic universe, specifically riffing on the Oscar-winning blockbuster “Joker.” In the film, Drew emerges as a transgender Joker, dropping in references to everything from The Daily Planet’s Perry White to “Saturday Night Live” kingpin Lorne Michaels, who’s played by Maria Bamford. – Tim Grierson of RogerEbert.com, who also wrote, “THE PEOPLE’S JOKER has been hailed as a landmark in trans visibility.” Click here for more.
– Wikipedia. THE PEOPLE’S JOKER is a 2022 American parody superhero film directed by Vera Drew, and written by Vera Drew and Bri LeRose. The film unofficially parodies characters from the Batman comics and the main character is a transgender woman based on the Joker played by Drew. The film also features Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, David Liebe Hart, Robert Wuhl (who also starred in 1989’s Batman), and Bob Odenkirk in supporting roles. The film premiered on September 13, 2022, at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, but planned screenings of the film were canceled due to copyright issues. – Click here for more.
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