Sasha Wortzel is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and activist, based in New York City. She is the writer, director, and producer of ''

Happy Birthday, Marsha! ''Happy Birthday, Marsha!'' is a fictional short film that imagines the gay and transgender rights pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours that led up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. The film stars Mya Taylor as J ...

'' with

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. She and Tourmaline raised over $25,000 on Kickstarter to fund the film. Wortzel co-created the documentary ''We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite''. The film concerns the community efforts to stop the eviction of the Starlite Lounge, the oldest black gay bar in Brooklyn. It was a highlight of the 2014

New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival put on by The New Festival, Inc., is one of the most comprehensive forums of national and international LGBT film/video in the world. Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc i ...

. Wortzel's interactive artwork ''42 Butter Lane'' (2011) was included in the 2014 exhibition ''Roaming House'' at

A.I.R. Gallery A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time i ...

. The exhibition, curated by

Mira Schor Mira Schor (born June 1, 1950) is an American artist, writer, editor, and educator, known for her contributions to art criticism, critical discourse on the status of painting in contemporary art and culture as well as to feminist art movement, femi ...

, sought to update the 1972 feminist art installation ''

Womanhouse ''Womanhouse'' (January 30 – February 28, 1972) was a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Institute of the Arts ( CalArts) Feminist Art Program and was ...

''.

References

External links

Official website
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Happy Birthday, Marsha! Directed by Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wortzel, Sasha Living people American documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people)