QUEEN OF THE GIRL GEEKS – Bonnie Diczhazy

My friend and colleague Lenny Pinna is an eclectic creative artist–filmmaker/screenwriter/publishing editor/author/theater actor and director. All of his roles are integrating around an extraordinary ongoing creative project that he has been working with during the past twenty-three years. In the year 2000, Lenny conceived, produced and directed a docu- drama about the life of a theater colleague and friend, Tedd Burr. 

At age seventy-five, Tedd trusted Lenny to tell his story, essentially a coming out story in the feature film, Letters To Uranus; the hidden life of Tedd Burr. The film was shown in the 2001 Cleveland International Film Festival and the 2002 New York Independent Film and Video Festival. The film was shot in one evening–in one take in real time. The resulting film was virtually unedited and given four stars by Variety Magazine, which proclaimed, “Pinna has almost created a new genre.”

The film Letters To Uranus; the hidden life of Tedd Burr is now available to rent or buy.

A 76-year-old androgynous man journeys through his past, revealing his early gender confused life. Letters to Uranus: The hidden life of Tedd Burr, a film by Lenny Pinna is a genre-defining, gender-bending type of cinema verité.

Shot in mini DV, this docu-drama, reveals an unusual relationship as it unfolds in virtually unedited real time, blurring the line between life and art. Spending 1 hour and 54 minutes at home with the 76-year-old, androgynous actor, Tedd Burr is like experiencing an evening with Quentin Crisp, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer all rolled into one-a-one-of-a-kind film experience.