Back in 2009 BeBe Zahara Benet was crowned the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and has just returned to the arena for RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 – the first winner ever to be invited back for All Stars. There are also plans in the works for a documentary about the drag star and his male alter-ego, Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa.
A Kickstarter has been launched in the hope of raising $33,000 to help complete director/producer Emily Branham’s documentary about the model and drag performer, Being Bebe.
The film follows Marshall, originally from Cameroon in West Africa, from his early days as a promising amateur drag performer in Minneapolis, to becoming the very First Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, to returning to real life after reality television – always on a relentless pursuit to become the artist he knows he was born to be.
Branham comments, “It’s a really exciting moment as a whole new generation of Drag Race fans is getting to know and love BeBe through All Stars 3. And with the 10th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race launching in just a few weeks – a story about the rise and struggles of the very first winner feels even more relevant. We’re in a great position to finish our film once we raise the completion funds for post-production. This has been an labor of love for me for a long time, and I can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to and invite BeBe’s supporters to get involved in the project through Kickstarter.”
Take a look at the crowdfunding trailer below, and if you like what you see, head over to Kickstarter to help out.
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