Willi Ninja

Willi Ninja

Born: April 12, 1961
Died: September 2, 2006
in New Rochelle, New York, USA
Willi Ninja, was an American dancer and choreographer best known for his appearance in the documentary film Paris Is Burning.

Movies for Willi Ninja...

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Title: PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 9, 2022
Type: Movie
It’s the resilience and love that keeps this community marching to the beat of its own drum; each generation redefining what it means to be queer and to be seen.
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Paris Is Burning: The Outtakes
Title: Paris Is Burning: The Outtakes
Released: February 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A collection film of additional footage from Paris is Burning
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The Little House That Could
Title: The Little House That Could
Character: Self
Released: June 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
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Check Your Body at the Door
Title: Check Your Body at the Door
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Check Your Body at the Door is about the remarkable underground House dancing in NYC's golden decade - the 1990s.
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Motherfucker: A Movie
Title: Motherfucker: A Movie
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary about the black gay scene in New York
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How Do I Look
Title: How Do I Look
Released: January 4, 2006
Type: Movie
The icons from the "Harlem Drag Balls" are influencing the biggest stars in pop culture for decades and they are telling their untold stories of their time. The creative lifestyle, fierceness and fabulousness, is the ultimate challenge in fashion, on the runway and dance floor for recognition and fame. Wolfgang Busch is capturing the creative way society's disenfranchised express themselves through movement and creativity.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Anthem
Title: Anthem
Released: July 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
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Paris Is Burning
Title: Paris Is Burning
Character: Self
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
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Tongues Untied
Title: Tongues Untied
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
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House of Trés
Title: House of Trés
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A quickfire portrait of the New York City ballroom scene in the ‘80s.