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Tangerine : Opening Sequence

Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) meets friend fellow sex worker and friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) at a donut shop in Hollywood, where she learns that her boyfriend has been cheating on her during her stint in jail.

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Film Language

extreme close-up, framing, high angle, medium close-up, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, shot/reverse shot, title sequence

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, LGBTQ: Transgender Woman

"Opening Sequence" in Tangerine. Directed by Sean Baker, Duplass Brothers Productions, 2015, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2428

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Allison Cooper

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