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Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Director Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee Composer Murray Lightburn Cast Jackie Shane, Sandra Caldwell, James Baley
Docs LGBTQIA+ Film & Music
4.46/5
Edition 2024
Sound and Vision
98' - 2024 - Documentary, Music/Musical - Format: DCP - Dialogue: English
Jackie Shane was a trans woman at a time when that term barely existed. Moreover, she was black, which made her life in the American Deep South even more difficult. Despite these challenges, she had a successful singing career, which she gave up in 1971 for reasons that have never been clarified. This eye-opening and absorbing documentary seeks to answer the many questions that surround her.

In the 1960s, Jackie Shane refused an appearance on the insanely popular Ed Sullivan Show. Allegedly because she was only allowed to come if she dressed as a man. Shane may have been born a man, but she felt like a woman as a child and she manifested herself that way all her life. She achieved success as a teenager and a big career seemed to be waiting for her in Toronto, the city she had moved to at 21 from her native Nashville. She scored hits, but in 1971 she disappeared from the public scene, to never return. Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story tells her story and tries to unravel the mystery with archive footage, interviews and re-enactments. Shane herself, who passed away in 2019, speaks through telephone interviews, as she did not want to be filmed.

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Credits

Directors

Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

Composers

Murray Lightburn

Cast

Jackie Shane, Sandra Caldwell, James Baley

Scenario

Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, Alison Duke

Director of Photography

Adam Crosby

Editors

Mike Munn

Producers

Amanda Burt, Sam Dunn, Michael Mabbott, Scot McFadyen, Justine Pimlott

Executive Producer

Elliot Page

Production studios

Banger Films

More info

Dialogue

English

Countries of production

Canada

Year

2024

Filmography

Michael Mabbott
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (2005), Citizen Duane (2006), Happy Excited Wonder (short, 2015), Music Lessons (short, 2015), Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (co-director, 2024)
Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (2005), Citizen Duane (2006), Happy Excited Wonder (short, 2015), Music Lessons (short, 2015), Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (co-director, 2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP

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