Team Queen is a music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for Triple Creme directed by Leah Meyerhoff

Leah Meyerhoff

Leah Meyerhoff is a Student Academy Award nominated director, producer and screenwriter. Her films have screened in over 200 film festivals worldwide and won over a dozen international awards.-Biography:...

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A Planet Out Award finalist, Team Queen is a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling music video for the queer post-punk band Triple Creme starring the best of New York burlesque

Burlesque

Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...

. Team Queen has screened at dozens of film festivals worldwide and is currently airing on LOGO

Logo (TV channel)

Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community...

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Synopsis

The new girl in school is thrown into a topsy-turvy madhouse of high school hellcats. The cheerleaders are drag queens, the nerds are nymphomaniacs, the punks breathe fire, and the prom band is none other than queer post-punk phenomenon Triple Creme. Featuring the best of New York burlesque: including Murray Hill

Murray Hill (performer)

Murray Hill is a well-known New York City comedian and drag king entertainer persona of Betsey Gallagher although this persona is maintained even in private settings...

, Julie Atlas Muz

Julie Atlas Muz

Julie Atlas Muz is a New York City-based performance artist, dancer, burlesque artist, stage director, and actress....

, Tigger, and Scotty the Blue Bunny.

Cast

Murray Hill — Principal

Molly the Dolly — Prom Queen

Julie Atlas Muz — Burlesque Dancer

Tigger — Burlesque Dancer

Scarlet Sinclair — Burlesque Dancer

Scotty the Blue Bunny — Burlesque Dancer

Awards

• Planet Out Awards — Finalist
• Fort Worth LGBT Film Festival — Best Music Video
• Out Music Awards — Best Music Video Nominee
• San Diego Women Film Festival — Judge's Award
• Pill Awards
  Pill Awards
  The Pill Awards are an annual awards ceremony held in New York City. Organized by Public-access television cable TV television show ADD-TV, the awards honor artists in the LGBT community and are the brain child of cinematographer and editor George Lyter....
  
   — Best Music Video Nominee
• Gaffers Film Festival — Best Music Video
• Rebel Film Festival — Best Music Video
• Micro Cine Fest — Best Music Video
• Evil City Film Fest — Best Music Video

Festivals

• Antimatter Underground Film Festival
• Austin LGBT Film Festival
• Austin Underground Film Festival
• Backseat Film Festival
  Backseat Film Festival
  The Backseat Film Festival is an independent film festival organized by Doug Sakmann, Nick Esposito, and Zafer Ulkucu.Beginning in Park City, UT during the winter of 2003 as one of many alternatives to the Sundance Film Festival it quickly transformed into a touring festival that continues to the...
  
  
• Boston Underground Film Festival
  Boston Underground Film Festival
  The Boston Underground Film Festival is an annual event held in the Boston, Massachusetts area that specializes in alternative film and video. The Boston Underground Film Festival, also known as BUFF, is the largest underground film festival in New England, spotlighting short films and feature...
  
  
• Boxurshorts Film Festival
• Brighton Film Festival
• Brooklyn Cinema Series
• Charm City Kitty Club
• Cinejam
• Coney Island Film Festival
• Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Cucalorus Film Festival
• Ellensburg Film Festival
• End of the Pier Film Festival
• Evil City Film Festival
• First Run Film Festival
  First Run Film Festival
  Each Spring, the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television presents the First Run Festival to showcase over 120 intermediate and advanced projects in film, video, and animation....
  
  
• Flix & Mix Film Festival
• Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Frameline Film Festival
  Frameline Film Festival
  Frameline is a nonprofit media arts organization that produces the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the oldest film festival devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender programming currently in existence...
  
  
• Fresh Fruit Film Festival
• Fylmz Festival
  Fylmz Festival
  The Fylmz Festival was an independent film festival in Nashville, Tennessee, offering distribution and a $100,000 prize for Best Feature Film. A $3,500 prize for Best Short Film is also be awarded. The last festival was in 2007.-References:...
  
  
• Gaffers Film Festival
• Great Lakes Film Festival
• Homoagogo
• Indie Music Video Festival
• Inside Out Film and Video Festival
  Inside Out Film and Video Festival
  The Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario, devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video works...
  
  
• Lake County Film Festival
  Lake County Film Festival
  The Lake County Film Festival is a yearly film festival held in Lake County, IL. Started as a two film event in 2004, it has expanded to a 100+ screening event in 2008.-History:...
  
  
• Lost Film Fest
• Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Micro Cine Fest
• Milan Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• MondoHomo
  Mondohomo
  MondoHomo Dirty South is an alternative queer music & arts festival that debuted in Atlanta in June 2007, during the first U.S. Social Forum. The first MondoHomo was created by Kiki Carr and Nikki Chotas, and inspired by Olympia, Washington's Homo-a-Gogo Festival.MondoHomo Dirty South 2008 took...
  
  

• MIX Film Festival
• New England Women in Film and Video
• NewFest
• No Festival Required
• NXNE
• Ohio Independent Film Festival
• Outfest
  Outfest
  Outfest is an LGBT-oriented film showcase and festival in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1982 as the "Gay and Lesbian Media Festival and Conference", the name was changed to Outfest in 1994.-Programs:...
  
  
• Out Takes Dallas
• Oxford Film Festival
• Planet Ant Film Festival
• Portland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• Portland Underground Film Festival
• Pride Film Festival
• Q Cinema
• Queens International Film Festival
  Queens International Film Festival
  The Queens International Film Festival ran from 2003-2009. It is currently defunct and the website has been shut down.-References:*...
  
  
• Queeruption
  Queeruption
  Queeruption is an annual international Queercore festival and gathering where alternative/radical/disenfranchised queers can exchange information, network, organize, inspire and get inspired, self-represent, and challenge mainstream society with DIY ideas and ethics...
  
  
• Queer Quickie Film Festival
• Rebel Film Festival
• Reeling Film Festival
• Rome International Film Festival
• Route 66 Film Festival
• San Antonio Underground Film Festival
• San Diego Women Film Festival
• San Francisco Women's Film Festival
• Santa Cruz Film Festival
• Sarasota Film Festival
  Sarasota Film Festival
  The Sarasota Film Festival has been held annually since 1999 in Sarasota, Florida. The festival is held in April and has become one of the top ten independent festivals in North America...
  
  
• Silver Lake Shorts
• Teabag Film Workshop
• Tiburon International Film Festival
• Toofy Film Festival
• Trenton Film Festival
• Waterfront Film Festival
  Waterfront Film Festival
  The Waterfront Film Festival takes place annually in the town of Saugatuck, Michigan in the United States. It is in its 13th year as of 2011.Ranked as one of the top 5 film festivals in the world by SAGIndie in the Screen Actors Guild Magazine, the Waterfront Film Festival draws thousands of movie...
  
  
• Wichita Film Festival

Reviews

Paper Magazine writes "They’re here, they’re queer, and they’re ready to rock. The grrrls in the post-punk Brooklyn band Triple-Crème are not afraid of a little heavy bass or some catchy guitar riffs. They’re also not afraid to kick your ass." and Christa Martin of GT Weekly says "This colorful romp in high school antics and edginess is a wild ride of a music video."

Elaine Mak of New England Film said that "award-winning director Leah Meyerhoff has built up a large list of accomplishments as a filmmaker." and Flavorpill writes: "post-punk lez rockers Triple Creme enlisted the brightest and most buoyant of New York's burlesque scene to star in the new music video for their single Team Queen."

External links

• Team Queen official site
• Leah Meyerhoff official site
• Triple Creme official site