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Transgender Icon Film ‘Granny Lee’ Set to Shoot in 2025 (EXCLUSIVE)
A new feature film chronicling the life of South African transgender icon Granny Lee is due to begin production in Johannesburg in April 2025.
Set against the backdrop of Apartheid-era Johannesburg and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the film will follow Granny Lee as she guides a grieving mother through the city’s LGBTQ underground scene. Shant Joshi’s Fae Pictures, known for the Sundance and GLAAD Media Award-winning “Framing Agnes” and Pakistan’s Oscar entry “In Flames,” represents Canadian interests. Executive producers include Alexandra Billings and Chrisanne Blankenship-Billings for Schmengie, Conor Barry for Savage Productions, and Lindsay Blair Goeldner and Abdul Malik for Fae Pictures.
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