Award-Winning Entertainment Team To Create “My Uncle Gloria” Documentary Film

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    Media Contacts:Mario Diaz

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    AWARD-WINNING ENTERTAINMENT TEAM TO CREATEMY UNCLE GLORIA DOCUMENTARY FILM

    -Transgender Documentary My Uncle Gloria follows the unique transformational family story of 62-Year-Old Tough Uncle Butch to Attractive Aunt Gloria-

    MIAMI Oct. 9, 2013 My Uncle Gloria Film LLC has signed a creative partnership with two-time Emmyaward-winning writer, director and producer, Robyn Symon, to write and direct the documentary, My UncleGloria. The film explores how the sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) of macho, auto-salvage yard owner,Bernard Butch Rosichan into transgender activist Gloria Stein at age 62, reunited an estranged andcompletely dysfunctional family. Filming has already begun and post-production is scheduled for completion by Spring 2014.

    My Uncle Gloria includes riveting and deeply personal home videos, spanning 30 years of family life,including rare access to Glorias sexual reassignment surgery. The film also chronicles Glorias work as adominatrix to pay for her costly surgeries and dives into her complex relationships with ex-wives, estrangedsons, and her transgender life partner Dan, who undergoes a partial female to male SRS in the film. Butthrough it all, Gloria found an unexpected ally, her nephew Steven Shulman, whose life she ultimatelysaves from spiraling out of control after his 22-year drug addiction and whose memoir titled, My UncleGloria, served as the basis for this documentary.

    My Uncle Gloria is an inspiring story of family healing and acceptance that everyone can relate to, nomatter what gender, race or background, said author and creator, Steven Shulman. I am incredibly

    honored to share Glorias unique transformative journey as a universial message of tolerance andacceptance.

    In addition to Emmy award-winning film director, Robyn Symon, My Uncle Gloria has assembled a top-notch team including the highly regarded Miami-based international public relations firm, Howard R. Miller Communications (HRMC), which will handle the films marketing and publicity. Additionally, Howard Miller,President of HRMC and an award-winning writer and television producer will serve as Executive Producer.Symon Productions will produce the film in association with the Synergy Entertainment Group.

    The production team is currently planning to launch a crowd-funding Kickstarter campaign that will not onlyprovide financial support for the film, but also build a strong social media following via Facebook andTwitter. Moreover, Steven Shulman will also release his memoir detailing his Uncle Butchs transformation

    into Gloria and deeply emotional family reconciliation.

    For more information please visit: www.myunclegloria.com

    About Robyn SymonRobyn Symon is an Emmy award-winning writer, director and producer who is quickly becoming known inthe industry as the transformational filmmaker, putting a spotlight on people who are making a differencein the world. Robyns Emmy award-winning films include, Leap of Faith, which won the Emmy for BestHuman Interest and Hemingways Key West, which won for Best Short Feature. Robyn Symons first indiefilm Transformation: The Life & Legacy of Werner Erhard broke the box office record in its first weeks runat the Quad Cinema in New York and was distributed by Screen Media Films and Universal. Some of Robyns other films and TV projects includes, Hedy & Yumi: Crossing the Bridge, Florida! (The TravelChannel), the PBS series Voices of Vision and programs for HGTV, Discovery Health, CNBC and more.

    About Gloria SteinGloria Stein, formerly Bernard Butch Rosichan, was born in Dayton Ohio in 1935. She went to Ohio StateUniversity where she studied architectural design before moving to Florida and opening up her own auto

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    wreckage and salvage graveyards. After her sex-change operation in 2001, Gloria retired and started theSouth Florida Gender Coalition where she mentored and helped the transgendered community (both pre-op and post-op). She currently lives in South Florida with Dan, her partner of 10 years, six cats; and is arecognized straight-to-the-point speaker regarding gender acceptance, support and human rights.

    About Steven ShulmanSteven Shulman is the author of the forth-coming memoir; My Uncle Gloria, a non-fictional account of howStevens life and immediate family was profoundly and positively changed after his Uncle Butchs

    transformation into his Aunt Gloria. Steven descended into a lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock n roll after themurder of his father at the hands of mobsters, his mothers alcoholism, coupled with her unexpected deathfrom a brain aneurysm at the age of 42 and his grandparents growing resentment for both him and hissister. After a long road to recovery at the age of 35, Shulman founded his own insurance agency. Now, asa successful independent insurance consultant and human rights advocate, Shulman fought for and won,equitable insurance rights for the transitioning transgender community with Gloria. Shulman hopes to reachout to the nation about family reconciliation, by sharing his and Glorias life with the world.

    About Howard R. Miller CommunicationsHoward R. Miller Communications is a full-service, award-winning, trilingual agency providing marketing,public relations, advertising, promotions, branding and website design services for their clients. The agencyhas a background in non-profit, real estate, corporate, film, and entertainment industries; as well as

    significant experience in travel and tourism, food, wine and spirits industries. With its broad capabilities, theagency functions comfortably and successfully in any business or organizational environment andcontinues to build an extensive and diverse base of local, regional, national and international corporate,non-profit and media relationships for their clients. For further information, please visit www.gohrmc.com

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