December 8, 2022
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) – AFI Movie Club
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. Making her feature directorial debut with the film four years after making a short about the same subject, Kimberly Peirce was the keynote speaker for...
June 15, 2020
AFI Movie Club: BOYS DON’T CRY
BOYS DON’T CRY stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. In this exclusive AFI Archive video, watch BOYS DON’T CRY director Kimberly Peirce speak to the AFI DWW 2014 class: Movie Trivia about BOYS DON’T…
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