Something You Should Know About Me

😀 Something You Should Know About Me, dir. Andy Fidoten, 2026, USA, 86 min.
🌊 West Coast premiere
Sunday, June 21, 2026, 6:00 PM, New Parkway, Oakland
Friday, June 26, 2026, 3:00 PM, Vogue Theatre
⚠️ explicit descriptions of sex

Something You Should Know About Me

Frameline blurb: It’s a dingy bar bathroom and a cis guy with huge muscles is fucking you doggy style against the sink… Or maybe not… In Al’s cartoons, anything is possible, even if it's the furthest thing from reality. In truth, Al (EJ Marcus) is an awkward trans guy who is completely in love with his oblivious best friend, Jesse (Morgan Sullivan of 👍  Here With You, Frameline43) who is also a trans guy. When the two are roommates at a queer cartoonist camp full of alcohol and hormones, midnight skinny dipping, and more than a few sprinkles of trans joy, who knows what could happen?

With trans folks in front of and behind the camera (executive produced by Lilly Wachowski!), this live-action/animation hybrid reminds us that authenticity, whether it be drawn or lived, is the key to living our best lives.

My take: Al (in the white shirt in the center of the photo) is indeed painfully awkward, so much so that it was a bit difficult to watch, for a viewer who was only a fraction of that awkward at that age. The setup of a week of camp for grownups sounded wonderful, but the reality brings some adult issues that make it more than a little complicated. Al is a classic nebbish, but without the sharp wit of a Woody Allen character. However, if you can stick with it, there is some payoff at the end of the story, as some things get resolved, for better or for worse. Recommended, with the caveat that you may find the main character aggravatingly feckless for much of the movie. Unfortunately, even having been to Tribeca, it has no preview I can find online.

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