Best Kept Secret - Sold Out!

BEST KEPT SECRET uncovers Trinidad, Colorado's transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex change capital of the world,” and follows three influential transgender women who may steer the rural ranching Trinidad toward becoming the “transsexual mecca.” Part observational film and part essay, BEST KEPT SECRET presents a fresh, realistic portrayal that will challenge the stereotypes of both transgender people and small town America.

PJ Raval – PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER
Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film," PJ’s films have won “Best Narrative Short” at the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Int’l Film Festival, the “Director’s Award for Most Visually Inspired Film” at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, the ASC Charles B. Lang Jr. Heritage Award, the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography. PJ’s feature narrative cinematography credits include, the 2006 Independent Spirit Award nominated ROOM which screened at Sundance and Cannes and the Los Angeles Film Festival Narrative Feature Award winner GRETCHEN, and the Burnt Orange-produced THE CASSIDY KIDS.

JAY HODGES – PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Jay Hodges is a senior editor at Greenleaf Book Group. He has held many positions in book and magazine publishing at places such as Viking Penguin, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, and Time Out New York. He has also worked as developmental and special programs director at Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, as a grant writer, and on an assembly line in a Norwegian fish-packing factory. He has an MA in German literature from UT Austin. BEST KEPT SECRET is his first documentary.