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Title: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Tess Anderson on July 12, 2012, 09:49:56 PM: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002931517

Now she is a blast from the past and yes, she is serious:

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Crossing Over - Transgender Documentary
Hi All!
I wanted to share with you the trailer to a new film that I'm proud to be a part of. I'm currently serving as assistant to the director on a feature-length documentary following three transgendered immigrants from Mexico that are seeking political asylum in the United States due to emotional, physical and sexual abuses inflicted upon them in their home country. Today we released our trailer and began a fund-raising campaign. This is a truly important film that we hope can bring awareness to this group of women and others like them. You can view the trailer and read more about the film at the link below. I hope you'll help us spread word about the film and the cause.

http://crossingoverdocumentary.tumblr.com/post/26981003812/we-are-so-excited-and-proud-to-share-our-new

Thanks!
- Ava 19
:whatever:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Chris_ on July 12, 2012, 09:55:09 PM: Quote
transgendered immigrants from Mexico
I'm glad that college degree is paying off. :rofl:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Big Dog on July 12, 2012, 09:55:39 PM: Quote from: Ava
I'm currently serving as assistant to the director

Isn't that the "pick up my dry cleaning and make me a sammich" girl?

I figure documentary filmmakers don't need a fluff girl.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Bad Dog on July 12, 2012, 10:20:27 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on July 12, 2012, 09:55:39 PM
Isn't that the "pick up my dry cleaning and make me a sammich" girl?

I figure documentary filmmakers don't need a fluff girl.

For trannys they might need a modified "fuzz tucker".
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 12, 2012, 10:30:19 PM: Quote from: Bad Dog on July 12, 2012, 10:20:27 PM
For trannys they might need a modified "fuzz tucker".

Perhaps Tucker will chime in and address that...

:popcorn:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Big Dog on July 12, 2012, 10:31:12 PM: Quote from: Bad Dog on July 12, 2012, 10:20:27 PM
For trannys they might need a modified "fuzz tucker".

I think you just named the next reality show on the Discovery Channel:

FUZZ TUCKERS
Thursday night at 9, only on...Discovery
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Airwolf on July 12, 2012, 10:58:33 PM: I'm sure that will be a huge hit at the Sundance film festival.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Jasonw560 on July 12, 2012, 11:09:57 PM: Quote
three transgendered immigrants from Mexico

Oh, hell, that's called Saturday night in south McAllen.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Ptarmigan on July 13, 2012, 12:05:05 AM: What part of 15 seconds did Ava not get? :mental:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 02:58:26 AM: Quote
Crossing Over - Transgender Documentary
Hi All!
I wanted to share with you the trailer to a new film that I'm proud to be a part of. I'm currently serving as assistant to the director on a feature-length documentary following three transgendered immigrants from Mexico that are seeking political asylum in the United States due to emotional, physical and sexual abuses inflicted upon them in their home country. Today we released our trailer and began a fund-raising campaign. This is a truly important film that we hope can bring awareness to this group of women and others like them. You can view the trailer and read more about the film at the link below. I hope you'll help us spread word about the film and the cause.

http://crossingoverdocume...nd-proud-to-share-our-new

Thanks!
- Ava 19

Why would they be coming here from Mexico? Hasn't nadin often told us how wonderful Mexico is and how it is far ahead of the US in everything?
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: JakeStyle on July 13, 2012, 04:04:06 AM: Holy crap that blond thing in the trailer looks like Nick Nolte with a bad wig. I wish that I hadn't watched that.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 13, 2012, 04:15:03 AM: Quote from: JakeStyle on July 13, 2012, 04:04:06 AM
Holy crap that blond thing in the trailer looks like Nick Nolte with a bad wig. I wish that I hadn't watched that.

You did so that I might save the VRWC Ops Budget some money on mind bleach. H5! :tongue: :fuelfire: O-)
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 04:52:04 AM: Oilwellian (8,261 posts)
8. Ava, this is fantastic

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It's been such a joy to watch you bloom over the years. Your work is so important and is what inspired me to learn how to make political videos as well. We all, every single progressive who pays attention to what's going on, plays the important role of messenger otherwise normal people wouldn't know that nutcases like us and our fellow DUers exist. I fully expect to see you one day, walking up those stairs and receiving an Oscar for Best Documentary because if Michael Moore's fake docus can win surely you can too! Keep up the great work!

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I think the bolded, red that I added to the above post makes the post more honest and better represents things, but maybe that's just me.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: miskie on July 13, 2012, 05:24:18 AM: Quote from: Big Dog on July 12, 2012, 10:31:12 PM
I think you just named the next reality show on the Discovery Channel:

FUZZ TUCKERS
Thursday night at 9, only on...Discovery

Perhaps - but there is one question that is far more important - Will Mike Rowe narrate it ?
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 05:30:02 AM: Quote from: miskie on July 13, 2012, 05:24:18 AM
Perhaps - but there is one question that is far more important - Will Mike Rowe narrate it ?

There may be jobs that are too dirty for even Mike Rowe. :lmao:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: diesel driver on July 13, 2012, 05:34:51 AM: Quote from: miskie on July 13, 2012, 05:24:18 AM
Perhaps - but there is one question that is far more important - Will Mike Rowe narrate it ?

Forrest Tucker could have, but he's dead, so how about Forrest Gump? :lmao:
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Big Dog on July 13, 2012, 05:45:42 AM: Quote from: diesel driver on July 13, 2012, 05:34:51 AM
Forrest Tucker could have, but he's dead, so how about Forrest Gump? :lmao:

If Forrest Gump can't make it, that leaves Jamie Gumm.

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc23/XxRawrChelseyxX/the-silence-of-the-lambs-ted-levine.jpg)
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: jtyangel on July 13, 2012, 05:51:31 AM: You know something that occurs to me is their attempts to flee to US based on 'political asylum' is a stretch. They'd have to prove, I would imagine, that their abuse is institutionalized in some way and I would think that you are picked on for being a cross dresser by the local townsfolk probably doesn't qualify. By the same token though, I have some respect for these folks because instead of crossing the border illegally like many of their fellow countrymen, they are actually attempting legal means to immigrate to this country. If for no other reason, I have respect for that. Boy the contradictions Ava must face. On one hand she needs all the illegal brown people racing across the border to get their illegal vote in for her president to get reelected and on the other hand those same people probably abuse the subjects of her documentary she's now trying to create sympathy for who are actually taking the proper steps in order to immigrate LEGALLY to the US.

The sad thing is these he/shes look more professional and like they could bring more to the table as a US citizen then most of the people who probably abuse them, cross the borders illegally, and then drain our system.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: vesta111 on July 13, 2012, 05:58:21 AM: Quote from: diesel driver on July 13, 2012, 05:34:51 AM
Forrest Tucker could have, but he's dead, so how about Forrest Gump? :lmao:

Interesting documentary, More fun to have Eric Estrada do the voice over. Or the Poncho and his side kick The Cisco Kid.

BTW-----What on earth is a Fuzz Tucker-----New Lingo to me.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Tucker on July 13, 2012, 07:32:43 AM: Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on July 12, 2012, 10:30:19 PM
Perhaps Tucker will chime in and address that...

:popcorn:

Nothing witty to add. :mad:

This from the comment section at link:

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No one has commented yet.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Bad Dog on July 13, 2012, 07:44:32 AM: Quote from: vesta111 on July 13, 2012, 05:58:21 AM
Interesting documentary, More fun to have Eric Estrada do the voice over. Or the Poncho and his side kick The Cisco Kid.

BTW-----What on earth is a Fuzz Tucker-----New Lingo to me.

Back in the day, before body scaping, strip clubs needed a "fuzz tucker" to help the girls tuck the fuzz in to their brief costumes. It was one of the carrears I researched as a young man along with rocket scientist.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: NHSparky on July 13, 2012, 08:12:32 AM: Quote from: diesel driver on July 13, 2012, 05:34:51 AM
Forrest Tucker could have, but he's dead, so how about Forrest Gump? :lmao:

Forrest Whitaker could--after all, he was in The Crying Game.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: AprilRazz on July 13, 2012, 09:21:43 AM: Quote from: jtyangel on July 13, 2012, 05:51:31 AM
You know something that occurs to me is their attempts to flee to US based on 'political asylum' is a stretch. They'd have to prove, I would imagine, that their abuse is institutionalized in some way and I would think that you are picked on for being a cross dresser by the local townsfolk probably doesn't qualify. By the same token though, I have some respect for these folks because instead of crossing the border illegally like many of their fellow countrymen, they are actually attempting legal means to immigrate to this country. If for no other reason, I have respect for that. Boy the contradictions Ava must face. On one hand she needs all the illegal brown people racing across the border to get their illegal vote in for her president to get reelected and on the other hand those same people probably abuse the subjects of her documentary she's now trying to create sympathy for who are actually taking the proper steps in order to immigrate LEGALLY to the US.

The sad thing is these he/shes look more professional and like they could bring more to the table as a US citizen then most of the people who probably abuse them, cross the borders illegally, and then drain our system.
But the one's case has been going on for 5 years and she hasn't bothered to learn English? That is one thing I had a problem with. A good friend got to stay here due to asylum and that was something he did before even leaving Cuba. He is now a citizen and serving in the military.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 13, 2012, 10:14:36 AM: Quote from: AprilRazz on July 13, 2012, 09:21:43 AM
But the one's case has been going on for 5 years and she hasn't bothered to learn English? That is one thing I had a problem with. A good friend got to stay here due to asylum and that was something he did before even leaving Cuba. He is now a citizen and serving in the military.

Asylum has a lot more to do with politics than individual persecution, it is pretty much automatic if you are from Cuba because of foreign policy reasons - we have officially and continuously condemned Cuba as an oppressive oligarchy that persecutes all sorts of individual freedoms, so in the face of our official posiiton it's tough to turn down anyone who flees from it.

One of the big reasons for granting asylum is not altruism, it is because it is a way of making the other country look bad and condemning them for civil rights abuses. Therefore, Mexico is a whole different ball of yarn from Cuba, because no matter how FUBAR and institutionally corrupt it really is, all the modern US Presidents and Congresses have pretended it is a functioning Western democracy, so they are loathe to grant Mexicans political asylum.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 10:32:58 AM: I just went to the website. I guess assisting the director doesn't merit a mention on the crew page.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Tucker on July 13, 2012, 12:07:11 PM: Quote from: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 10:32:58 AM
I just went to the website. I guess assisting the director doesn't merit a mention on the crew page.

The little butterball has to start at the bottom, laying on her back, and work up. Hell. Lewinski has only made it to the point where she is only on her knees, and she has been doing it a lot longer than Ava.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 13, 2012, 12:34:54 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on July 12, 2012, 09:55:39 PM
Isn't that the "pick up my dry cleaning and make me a sammich" girl?

I figure documentary filmmakers don't need a fluff girl.

Well that's good. That's something else she would be a failure at.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Big Dog on July 13, 2012, 05:52:11 PM: Quote from: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 10:32:58 AM
I just went to the website. I guess assisting the director doesn't merit a mention on the crew page.

"Assisting" being a euphemism, of course.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 13, 2012, 06:56:09 PM: Just the other day I was thinking: What about the plight of the transgendered Mexican illegal aliens? Will no one make a documentary about them?

And now I see it is handled.

Seriously though, who gives a rip? Who thinks of these things to make movies about? BBCA used to have some doozies.
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: miskie on July 13, 2012, 07:21:14 PM: Quote from: Big Dog on July 13, 2012, 05:45:42 AM
If Forrest Gump can't make it, that leaves Jamie Gumm.

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc23/XxRawrChelseyxX/the-silence-of-the-lambs-ted-levine.jpg)

(http://kaszpir.hlds.pl/4chan/kill.it.with.fire.gif)
Title: Re: Ava, now a director's assistant on a documentary about "transgendered" Mexicans
Post by: obumazombie on July 13, 2012, 08:03:34 PM: I may know of a mole that could shed some light on this situation.