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The queer coming of age story will play in more than twenty cities after debuting in New York on April 5.
By Aaron Couch
Film Editor
The People’s Joker is dealing out a set of new theatrical dates, and has unveiled a new trailer to mark the occasion.
In addition to arriving in New York next month, the DC parody will also screen at Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide. And it has booked dates in theaters in Los Angeles, Austin, Texas; Denver, Colo., San Francisco; Seattle, Wash.; Washington, D.C.; and more. The full listings for North America can be found at the website for Altered Innocence, which is distributing the project.
The film hails from filmmaker and star Vera Drew, who directed, co-wrote and edited the feature. She stars as Joker the Harlequin, an aspiring clown coming to terms with her gender identity as a trans woman. The story borrows both from DC Comics as well as Drew’s life. Drew, an editor who has worked on Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, will be in attendance and several of the screenings.
The movie made waves in late 2022 when, as Drew was preparing to screen the film at the Toronto Film Festival, the fest received a cease and desist letter from Warner Bros. Discovery, asking that the film not be shown. The festival did allow the premiere, but removed it from other screenings. Still, Drew has maintained her project is fair use protected by the First Amendment.
The project was crowdfunded and shot on green screen with the help of 200 predominately queer artists, musicians and animators. Among the cameos in the film are Bob Odenkirk, Maria Bamford and Tim Heidecker, whom Drew worked with on An Evening with Tim Heidecker
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