Trantasia is a mainstream feature-film documentary chronicling 6 contestants in the first ever 'World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant'. The pageant was created by Las Vegas producer Norbert Aleman and hosted by former Las Vegas

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 Jahna Steele

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, a transgender entertainer who created quite a stir in the 90s when she was outed as having been born a man. Trantasia features personal profiles of the pageant contestants including Mimi Marks

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http://trantasiathemovie.com/cast.htm, Cassandra Cass, Maria Roman, Erica Andrews, Tiara Russell and Dorae Saunders. The film has been featured on the nationally syndicated television programs The Tyra Banks Show

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, Entertainment Tonight

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and The Insider

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 and was first broadcast on U.S. television on Showtime on February 14, 2008.

History

Trantasia is a behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling "The World’s Most Beautiful Transsexual" Transsexual Beauty Contest which was created by Las Vegas producer Norbert Aleman. Ted Smith suggested to Norbert Aleman that the pageant would make great subject matter for a documentary. After filming the three-day pageant, director Jeremy Stanford travelled across the US interviewing six of the contestants and their families. These personal profiles create the heart of the documentary which was also edited by Stanford.

Entertainment Tonight

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and The Insider

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“have featured the making of the documentary and profiled the film’s transgendered stars in several separate stories. Several other media outlets have covered the movie and pageant, including Maxim Magazine-Europe. The San Francisco Chronicle

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also featured an article, "Pretty Women" concerning the documentary http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/22/NSGIBJHHTD1.DTL Daily Variety and the San Francisco Observer favorably reviewed the documentary http://news.sfobserver.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=15b71cd7ddab45fb16b01d9446e7abc3. The documentary has screened at several film festivals including Frameline in San Francisco, Outfest in Los Angeles, Neonfest in Las Vegas and the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Credited

Erica Andrews

Cassandra Cass

Mimi Marks

Maria Roman

Tiara Russell

Dorae Saunders

Cézanne

Alecia Cienega

Tara Willow Deasy

Ruby Kay

Kristina Marie

Marie

Delilah Paris

Victoria Parker

Tamalah Taylor

Susan B. Whitney

Nicole Xtravaganza

Vi

Not credited

Danielle Hunter

Kayla

CoCo Van Cartier

Lana Blake

Lucy Marie Pereyra

Milissa Ravin

Montana Navarre

Venus Envy

Ireen Sue

Tiffany Pagie

Jurnee Abigail

Sonovia

Bryan Watkins

External links

• http://trantasiathemovie.com/
• http://www.karla-ts.com/blog/data/150.html
• http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2004/07/29/trannies.html
• http://et.tv.yahoo.com/celebrities/7424/ Entertainment Tonight coverage
• http://www.lasvegas-nv.com/norm/nj073004.htm
• http://www.jenburke.com/2004/12/worlds-most-beautiful-mtf-transsexual.html
• http://www.queensofdrag.com/features/2004tranny
• http://www.queensofdrag.com/features/mimi-2005/
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/22/NSGIBJHHTD1.DTL
• http://news.sfobserver.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=15b71cd7ddab45fb16b01d9446e7abc3