Sequinette
Quick Facts
Biography
Sequinette is an American female-to-female drag performer in Brooklyn, New York. She also works as a make-up artist and stylist for herself and other performers. She is the founder of the Coney Island Sweetheart Pet Pageant, an alternative beauty pageant for pets that raises funds for various animal welfare charities.She starred in Michelle Handelman's 2011 video installation, "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" alongside Armen Ra and can be seen on Sundance Channel's 2011 reality television series Unleashed by Garo portraying herself.
Career
Television
Sequinette starred in Unleashed by Garo, a reality television show on Sundance Channel.
Filmmaker
Sequinette has recently expanded into analog filmmaking working with 16mm and super 8 film, processing film herself in many cases, and hand painting directly onto the negative to great effect. She has created several short films including Queen Down (co-directed with NYC artist Heather Acs), Rack Focus, Cello Screen Test, Lifestyles of the Bitchin' Famous, Good Queen, and Broken: Battle of the Goddesses. Her films have screened in Manhattan, New York, San Francisco, California, Austin, Texas, and Brooklyn, New York. She is currently pursuing her MFA at San Francisco Art Institute.
Awards and nominations
Sequinette won Miss Lez 2008, a queer beauty pageant. In 2007, she was runner-up in the Miss Coney Island Pageant.