Paper Dolls
(eVideo)

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Strand Releasing (Firm), Distributor
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Strand Releasing, 2013., Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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eVideo
Language
English

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Film
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by Strand Releasing in 2013.
Description
"Paper Dolls" is a documentary film which explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel. Cast out by their families because of their sexual and gender preferences, these people work 6 days a week as live-in, 24 hour a day care givers (and in many cases as surrogate children) for elderly orthodox Jewish men, in order to earn money to send to their families in the Philippines that had rejected them. ..On their one free night per week, they pursue their own personal dreams as drag performers in the group they call "The Paper Dolls" in the relative freedom of cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. Despite having to deal with often harsh working conditions, threats by street criminals, fear of terrorist bombings and the constant peril of deportation, The Paper Dolls demonstrate a rare generosity of spirit, humanity and lust for life...Award winning filmmaker Tomer Heymann enters this unusual world and by coming to know and love these subjects unearths joy, sorrow and humanity which change his life forever.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language
In English

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

(2013). Paper Dolls . Strand Releasing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

2013. Paper Dolls. Strand Releasing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Paper Dolls Strand Releasing, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Paper Dolls Strand Releasing, 2013.

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