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Announcing The 2023 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellows
ROCKWOODLEADERSHIP.ORG: Rockwood is proud to announce the 2023 cohort of the Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellowship, including Hansen Bursic. This Fellowship brings together 12 leaders working at the intersection of storytelling, film, and social change to...
DOK Industry Podcast: Missionwashing Docs
A conversation on the American Non-Profit Industrial Complex and interrogating how these organizations “mission wash” their role in maintaining a status quo within the documentary ecosystem, harming its labour force.LISTEN NOW
Film Premiering in Pittsburgh Tells the Untold Story of Pennsylvania Transgender Woman
QBURGH MAGAZINE: Reel Q, Pittsburgh’s annual LGBTQ+ film festival and one of the oldest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the world, will be hosting the world premiere of Halloween 1987. The film is based on the memoir of Jenny Jae Cory of Towanda, Pennsylvania. READ...
Halloween 1987 diverts from “classic coming-out narrative” at ReelQ Film Festival
PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER: For his new film, Hansen Bursic wants to tell a different kind of coming-out story. Bursic’s short film, Halloween 1987, follows Cory, a teenager who dresses up as their girlfriend, Meg, for a high school Halloween party. As the night comes to...
Documentary Workers Unite Against the Odds
HYPERALLERGIC: On March 14, workers at the International Documentary Association (IDA) announced their intent to unionize with the Communications Workers of America Local 9003. Documentary Workers United (DWU) is the first union of its kind in the United States,...
Pennsylvania candidate seeking to be first openly trans county executive in U.S. history
METRO WEEKLY: In the campaign video, created by award-winning queer filmmaker Hansen Bursic, Titus talks about attempting suicide twice before the age of 16, and how they eventually overcame various hardships and odds to create a better life for themself, and —...
Temple senior’s thesis film shares transgender experience
TEMPLE NEWS: Hansen Bursic is taking viewers back to the 1980s to tell an important story about the transgender experience. “Halloween 1987” tells the story of Cory, a gender-questioning teenager whose girlfriend, Meg, wants them to wear a couple’s costume to a...
Film student’s documentary about a rural transgender teenager’s transition shows at international LGBTQ film festival
TEMPLE NEWS: Hansen Bursic was at work the day he received a congratulatory email notifying him his documentary “The Toothmans” had been accepted into San Francisco-based Frameline42, the largest and oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world. “The Toothmans” is an...
Student director screens trans youth documentary set in rural PA
PHILADELPHIA GAY NEWS: At 20 years old, queer filmmaker and activist Hansen Bursic will be one of the youngest directors in attendance this weekend when his award-winning documentary “The Toothmans” screens at the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT festival, held...