Special Screening of "How Do I Look" on World AIDS Day

For immediate release

November 1st 2007

How Do I Look documentary screening on WORLD AIDS DAY at the Harlem Diaspora Film Festival, Saturday December 1st, 2007 at the Riverside Theatre, 8PM

The award winning documentary How Do I Look with director Wolfgang Busch and assistant directors Kevin Omni and Luna Khan, will be screened at the Harlem Diaspora Film Festival on December 1st, 2007 on World AIDS Day, followed by Q & A by the directors. How Do I Look is about the Harlem “Drag Ball” community that originated in the 1970s in Harlem, an off shoot of the legendary Harlem “Drag Balls” from the 1920s.

This African American and Hispanic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Harlem community is best known for its worldwide influences in dance, fashion, runway and music, inspiring Madonna with her best selling music video “Vogue”, fashion designer Thierry Mugler and in music Ru Paul and #1 Billboard dance performer extraordinaire Kevin Aviance with producer GOMI.

This trendsetting artistic community is unfortunately also hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic. Since the beginning of the production of the How Do I Look documentary in 1995, nine members from the “Ball” community have passed away: Willi Ninja, Angie Infiniti, Eric Christian Bazaar, Marcel Christian, Gerald Dupree LaBeija, Mystery Royale, Kenny Ebony, Pepper LaBeija, and Billy Pemperton. While this list of nine "Ball" members did not all die from AIDS, to this date many surving members are struggling every day with the HIV virus. For that reason, much of this community’s history and legacy is lost or in danger of being lost.

This ground-breaking, inspiring, educational and entertaining documentary, now available on DVD, talks about the history of the dance “Vogue” by Willi Ninja, Jose Xtravaganza, and Andre Mizrahi; sends HIV hope messages by Luna Khan; “Bazaar” Fashion designs by Ross Infiniti; runway by Ricky Revlon; transgender issues by Tracy Africa, Carmen Xtravaganza, and Octavia St. Laurent; and the “Ball” history by Marcel Christian and Kevin Omni. Special appearance by columnist Michael Musto, Patricia Field, and Kevin Aviance.

How Do I Look is released independently by Art From The Heart LLC, and we are proud to represent LGBT content at the up-coming prestige’s Diaspora Film Festival in Harlem.

How Do I Look is currently screened in film festivals across the United States and Internationally and the How Do I Look DVD is available on our website www.HowDoILooknyc.org, Amazon.com, selected retail stores in NYC at Kim’s Video, Giovanni’s in Philadelphia and A Different Light book store in Los Angeles.

Please contact: Art From The Heart, attn. Wolfgang Busch at 718-726-0831 or WolfgangBusch@earthlink.net or kevin.burrus1@verizon.net; website: http://www.HowDoILooknyc.org.