In all the festivals we've done during the Q&A, the first question was: 'Why didn't we know this man?' That's why I did the film,” says Shahid, who first discovered Lynes' story while working on a book of male nudes in 2011.
Anita Menon's creative curiosity and artistic explorations embodied humanity, offering inspiration as she shared Bharatanatyam through the Anjali School of Dance and connected with diverse audiences.
It was the early early nineties, when I first started the theater and I needed to get a costume, and I was told to go down to this club. I was actually walking down Third Avenue and there was a guy walking by, and I saw that he was wearing long fingernails and rings and big starry glasses, but he was in sweats. And I thought, 'that's such a weird look, but down here, who knows?'.
