As SXSW 2009 approaches we’ll be asking filmmakers to spill the superficial details about their films, to tell us all the deep personal details of what makes them tick, and –– new this year! –– reveal who they had to sleep with, in the incestuous conspiracy-minded secret society that is the wider SXSW community, in order to get their film programmed at the festival.

28 year-old Katie Turinski makes her filmmaking debut with Sissyboy, an Emerging Visions documentary following a trio of Portland-based drag performers, known for their “audacity, ambivalence and social commentary.” This is, apparently, not your daddy’s drag queen movie: in the trailer, the Sissyboy crew is described as “a group of faggots who don’t fit into their normal lives” putting on “an afterschool special for adults.” Turinski answers The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone below; the Sissyboy trailer is above.

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