Deep Stealth Productions
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According to its website, Deep Stealth Productions was founded by Calpernia Addams
and Andrea James
and produces entertainment and educational content for several media. Besides being a production company, Deep Stealth is also a popular site for support and products related to the transgender community. Deep Stealth's transgender resources and online community, although still affiliated with Deep Stealth, have migrated to genderlife.com.
and TV channels such as CNN
and CNBC
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's Vagina Monologues with a cast consisting entirely of transgender people. Addams and James participated in Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
, an HBO documentary on gender issues with a worldwide perspective. Addams also worked on Call me Malcolm, a documentary on a female-to-male seminary student and his struggle in dealing with his questions about his faith, love and gender identity.
for the main character of Transamerica
, "Bree" Osbourne, and the script of the movie. Huffman, who had inhibitions about the subject, contacted Addams and James to help her cut through the stereotypes in shaping the character. Huffman wanted the character to have her own life experience which showed her as a unique person in her own right.
Calpernia Addams
Calpernia Sarah Addams is an American author, actress, musician, and a spokesperson and activist for transgender rights and issues.-Biography:...
and Andrea James
Andrea James
Andrea Jean James is an American film consultant, actress, LGBT rights activist, and transsexual woman.-Career:In 2003, James co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with her business partner Calpernia Addams, to create educational materials for transsexual women, to raise awareness about the epidemic...
and produces entertainment and educational content for several media. Besides being a production company, Deep Stealth is also a popular site for support and products related to the transgender community. Deep Stealth's transgender resources and online community, although still affiliated with Deep Stealth, have migrated to genderlife.com.
Company profile
According to its own website, Deep Stealth has been involved in production of many documentaries and videos and covered on periodicals such as New York Times Sunday Magazine and Rolling StoneRolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
and TV channels such as CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
and CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
.
HairFacts is a "free and commercial-free" online source for the information on the applications and merits and demerits of the available procedures of hair removal
Hair removal
Hair removal is the removal of body hair, and describes the methods used to achieve that result.Hair typically grows all over the human body during and after puberty. Men tend to have more body hair than women. Both men and women tend to have hair on the head, eyebrows, eyelashes, armpits, pubic...
. It informs the users of the safeguards against the risks involved and also warns them against the scamsters present in the business.
HairTell is consumer forum where the members can offer advice and share their experiences with hair removal.
Media production
Deep Stealth Productions has worked on various projects such as the short comedic film called Casting Pearls as well as V-DAY L.A., an on-screen adaptation of Eve EnslerEve Ensler
Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.- Personal life :...
's Vagina Monologues with a cast consisting entirely of transgender people. Addams and James participated in Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She is a 2005 American TV-documentary by Antony Thomas.-Cast:*Gore Vidal as Narrator*Calpernia Addams as Herself*Milton Diamond as Himself *Alice Dreger as Herself Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She is a 2005 American TV-documentary by Antony Thomas.-Cast:*Gore...
, an HBO documentary on gender issues with a worldwide perspective. Addams also worked on Call me Malcolm, a documentary on a female-to-male seminary student and his struggle in dealing with his questions about his faith, love and gender identity.
Casting Pearls
Casting Pearls is a short movie produced by Deep Stealth Productions. The comedic film has Addams in the lead role as Cassandra, a struggling transsexual actress trying to make her mark in the film industry battling the perpetual prejudice and bias against the transgender people. Its storyline spans one day of casting where Cassandra endures the hurtful and contemptuous remarks hurled at her with her perseverance and professionalism. Casting Pearls attempts to show that the prejudice can not impede the real contributions of the transgender community.History
The name of the company is a reference to "deep stealth" which is used as a slang in the transsexual community to mean "living without question of discovery in one's chosen gender identity."Transamerica
Deep Stealth worked with Felicity HuffmanFelicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
for the main character of Transamerica
Transamerica (film)
Transamerica is a 2005 independent comedy-drama film produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman , who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby ....
, "Bree" Osbourne, and the script of the movie. Huffman, who had inhibitions about the subject, contacted Addams and James to help her cut through the stereotypes in shaping the character. Huffman wanted the character to have her own life experience which showed her as a unique person in her own right.