Drew de Pinto’s thesis film on The New Yorker Video
Drew de Pinto's (MFA '22) thesis film Compton’s '22 is now part of The New Yorker Documentary:
“When Drew de Pinto first learned about the Compton’s Cafeteria riot—in which a diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district erupted in fighting between a group of trans women and the police—the filmmaker was immediately intrigued. The history of that uprising had been largely lost and forgotten. Drawing on the work of the historian Susan Stryker, and on archival material from the G.L.B.T. Historical Society, de Pinto dived into the history, and was able to access a trove of VHS tapes of oral-history interviews with participants in the riot. In their film “Compton’s 22,” that footage provides both a window to the past and a source of inspiration for a new generation.”
Read the full piece and watch the film below:
