Jewel's Darl

TV Movie
1986
27m

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A queer man describes the intimate and mundane details of his loving relationship with a trans woman who is an inspiration in his life.A queer man describes the intimate and mundane details of his loving relationship with a trans woman who is an inspiration in his life.A queer man describes the intimate and mundane details of his loving relationship with a trans woman who is an inspiration in his life.

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Made for groundbreaking 1985 New Zealand television series About Face, for which the New Zealand Film Commission funded seven up-and-coming independent filmmakers to make seven distinct 30 minute dramas. Series also includes My First Suit (1986) by Stewart Main.

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An idiosyncratic tale of drag life starring a key political figure

I saw this short film long, long ago. It's a comparatively straightforward tale of a drag queen, Jewel, her boyfriend and the things they experience during a day together. One scene involves Jewel dressing her boyfriend up in women's clothes and teaching him the tricks.

It's a sweet, slightly sad tale but most people today would want to see it because the actress who plays Jewel, Georgina Beyer, subsequently became the world's first transsexual mayor, and then the world's first transsexual member of Parliament, in her native New Zealand. Georgina was born male. In Jewel's Darl, she's absolutely gorgeous. I am unsure whether or not she'd undergone full gender reassignment at the time.