UrFavorite'Threat
• Interdisciplinary Artist • Auteur • Visionary •
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us, are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
UrFavorite’Threat is a director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, essayist, cabaret performer, actor, and community organizer with 30 years of experience. Their work gently pushes viewers’ comfort zones and supports those who’ve been pushed and boxed in.
Mission-minded, they are building a unique film library of experimental, avant-garde documentaries. Using therapeutic storytelling told in the first person, they share their story of surviving traumatic experiences by developing personal tools that continues to heal their generational trauma.
These tools and growth are the subject of their film series, “f*ck pr*de” (fuck pride). This series reveals how often our pride gets in our way. Sharing the steps they took to rebuild their resiliency after a devastating losses, they go in-depth about their nonbinary medical transition, mental health recovery, the 30-day challenge to get out their own way, their community service, and the bittersweet irony of how identity politics harm the communities it serves.
f*ck pr*de (formerly Beautiful Boi) has received six grants, including the Jerome Foundation’s Film, Video, and Digital Production Grant in 2023, Metro Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant in 2022, Minnesota State Arts Board’s Creative Support Grant in 2022/23, and Art Experiences Grant for 2024/25. They also received an Honorarium from the Sundance Institute’s Uprise Grant in 2021.
They were commissioned by the Walker Art Center, under Atlas Oggún Phoenix, to write three essays about the making of the series for the Walker's MN Artists online reader, published between November 1, 2021, and February 14, 2024.
Little Men won multiple awards and nominations at various film festivals, including the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, Bucharest ShortCuts Cinefest, the UK’s Rapport Black Film Festival, Seattle Black Film Festival, Gary International Black Film Festival, IndieFest in La Jolla, CA, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, and the 2020 Black Continental Independent Movie Awards, where it received an Honorable Mention. It also received an Honorable Mention from the Deep Focus Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY, in 2021.
Their third film, Do I Qualify for Love?, was exhibited at various festivals, including MSPIFF, London & Birmingham, North Carolina, DC, and Gary. It competed for Best Short Documentary at MSPIFF in 2021 and was selected as one of the Best of the Fest, alongside Questlove’s “Summer of Love.” The film’s style will be incorporated into Beautiful Boi’s monologue segments.
Ordinary, the official fundraising film for the film series, won awards in France, India, and Houston, including Cannes and Marseille’s Prix Coup de Coeur at the AVIFF festival and Pune’s, Out and Loud Queer Film Festival for Best International Documentary Film. It screened at various festivals, including the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, TRANSlations in Seattle, Brighton/Hove’s FilmPride Festival, and the University of Brighton’s Research Department’s fundraising screening. It also participated in Cherry Grove’s Trans Celebration Weekend and Out at the Movies in Winston/Salem and Tampa Bay Transgender Film Festival in 2023.
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My mother, Lorri Seals, Walter Penn, Evan Frost for Minnesota Public Radio