Trans star and producer Jesse James Keitel has joined an upcoming docuseries highlighting trans entrepreneurs.
Titled “T-Town,” the series explores the historically underrepresented lives of dynamic trans entrepreneurs who are launching their own businesses, building up communities, and empowering a new generation to live their truth.
Currently seeking distribution, the project was developed by Colby Gaines, Craig Bland and Tom Greenhut, who will also serve as executive producers via Back Roads Entertainment. They will partner with Keitel’s Peroxide Labs label.
The first season will focus on a thriving queer-trans community in Memphis, Tenn. Featuring poignant voices and big personalities, the unscripted project will look at “stories no one’s ever heard like, building tiny homes for the trans community on the buckle of the Bible Belt to creating groundbreaking trans-inclusive clothing brands to launching Tennessee’s first trans beauty pageant,” an announcement said.
“I know firsthand the perseverance and...
Titled “T-Town,” the series explores the historically underrepresented lives of dynamic trans entrepreneurs who are launching their own businesses, building up communities, and empowering a new generation to live their truth.
Currently seeking distribution, the project was developed by Colby Gaines, Craig Bland and Tom Greenhut, who will also serve as executive producers via Back Roads Entertainment. They will partner with Keitel’s Peroxide Labs label.
The first season will focus on a thriving queer-trans community in Memphis, Tenn. Featuring poignant voices and big personalities, the unscripted project will look at “stories no one’s ever heard like, building tiny homes for the trans community on the buckle of the Bible Belt to creating groundbreaking trans-inclusive clothing brands to launching Tennessee’s first trans beauty pageant,” an announcement said.
“I know firsthand the perseverance and...
- 11/17/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Look at Emmy nominees across this year’s reality categories and you’ll see that a growing number of unscripted series are facilitating discussions about sensitive subjects including disabilities, addiction, race, Lgbtq issues — and even religion. Some shows tackle a bit of everything, such as “Queer Eye” and last year’s unstructured reality program Emmy winner, “United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell.”
Reality shows can promote understanding by introducing viewers to people and communities they might not otherwise encounter and facilitate conversations.
“One of the biggest challenges our country still has is empathy,” says Tom Greenhut, exec producer of “Intervention.” “Empathy for people they may feel have a uniquely different experience from them, whatever that may be. From empathy we can have compassion, and a little compassion goes a long way.”
Jonathan Murray, exec producer of 2016 unstructured reality program Emmy-winner “Born This Way” has used unscripted TV to...
Reality shows can promote understanding by introducing viewers to people and communities they might not otherwise encounter and facilitate conversations.
“One of the biggest challenges our country still has is empathy,” says Tom Greenhut, exec producer of “Intervention.” “Empathy for people they may feel have a uniquely different experience from them, whatever that may be. From empathy we can have compassion, and a little compassion goes a long way.”
Jonathan Murray, exec producer of 2016 unstructured reality program Emmy-winner “Born This Way” has used unscripted TV to...
- 8/17/2018
- by Paula Hendrickson
- Variety Film + TV
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