Recent Glo auditions.

The behind-the-scenes photographer's name is Bill Downey. Great, great photographer. He was snapping away in such a way, you'd forget he was there. He's also great with people, he relaxes everyone!

Combating the Naysayer

The other day I entered a conversation full of disdain for what I am doing - making a film with a transgender character in it. I was told, all sorts of things, including I shouldn't, that I am trying to make people think another way about transgender people and that it is an 'abomination to God.'

I asked if what they believed meant not doing anything about the transgender individuals that are getting murdered, then went on to explain the high rate of homicides transpiring and the ways in which some of the murders I have learned about occurred. I then got a slightly different reaction.

Sometimes I think people are so busy being resistant or trying to swing this as a joke they forget that transgender people are just that - people. So it alienates them from the reality of being human beings who are living their lives in the best way they can.

I'm a writer/director so the best way I could find to impact this issue was to write something I might direct. That involves having a transgender person in the story as someone - simply living life and yet not have that be the main point of the tale.

This way I haven't created the pressure cooker that message films can sometimes be and yet folks are free to get the message.

I hope we have the opportunity to shoot this, because I've created an experience I think will be fun to enter - making it easy for me to tell this story and talk folks through the situations of the characters.

Written by Tanyeno Wotorson, the Director of "Glo."

Frederic Renosi - New Poster Design

This is the poster for my new film, "Glo," which I am trying to raise funds for. It was done by Frederic Renosi, a designer across the seas in France. People might say, why use him? It's so far!! Well, because Frederic is very, very, talented and I have followed his designing since the days of Myspace where I met him. He is flawlessly hard-working, respectful and profoundly innovative.

And our working relationship never has a stressful moment, as he is careful to listen and craft along the lines of what I seek to express, while bringing his own sensibilities to the affair. He is also quick. The minute I comment, he is on it. Extraordinary integrity with a lack of ego and highly unique work? I study people who are this talented without the fanfare.

I find it really rare. But it gives space to the work.

His previous work for me:

Tanyeno Wotorson
Director - Glo