"BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT"
Duration: 28 min 52 sec
Featuring: Olivia Hart, Collette LeGrande, Donna Personna
Director / Editor: James Hosking
Director of Photography: Vanessa Carr
Re-Recording Mixer: Miik Dinko
Producers: Jeremy Lybarger & James Hosking
Beautiful By Night follows a trio of older drag performers who work at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a bar in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin neighborhood. Both the film and its accompanying photo series explore these performers’ ritualistic transformations, along with themes of aging, labor, and self-acceptance.
The film has been featured on Out, Slate, Feature Shoot, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Beautiful Decay, The Bold Italic, Dangerous Minds, Mother Jones, Paper, and was chosen as a Staff Pick on Vimeo.
The film was included in the 2020 group art show Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
The film was also part of several special sold-out screenings with performances and a panel discussion presented by the Tenderloin Museum at the Museum and at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.