Filmed on three iPhone 5S cameras, Tangerine is a modern film featuring a racially diverse cast of low-income, disenfranchised peoples, namely black trans sex workers. The film dives into complex relationships between a married Armenian taxi driver who enjoys having sex with trans female sex workers in his taxi, an imprisoned pimp who cheats on his sex worker girlfriend with other sex workers, and several female sex workers who, despite all odds, support one another through their individual hardships. The film oozes feminism, pro-sex and pro-sex work ideologies, and the unapologetic desire to freely exist in an equally unapologetic, harsh world. Tangerine provides a window to a world where pre-conceived notions of fidelity, anti-sex, anti-sex work, and anti-feminism are too expensive to afford, but also are undeniably barriers on expressing one’s self, and therefore are left behind.
Courtney Pollard, Lucky Rosa, Anna Crane
