The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, 2000)

“She’s a survivor. After the holocaust, there will be roaches, Tammy Faye, and Cher.” Jim J. Bullock

After a long lockdown slumber, Documentary Meets is born again! For the celebratory sixth instalment of the series, the final edition for 2021, the theme is – what else – ‘THE COMEBACK’.

Join us at Composite on the evening of Friday, December 3 for a one-off screening of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a playful paean to the titular figure and the source material for the upcoming biopic of the same name starring Jessica Chastain.

A flamboyant comeback queen who, having made her name as a pioneer of American televangelism alongside then-husband Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye would pass through the fires of media scandal and divorce to become an unlikely queer icon. Narrated by drag superstar RuPaul, the film approaches Tammy Faye with campy but powerful compassion – a quality that formed the cornerstone of her own glamorous, highly idiosyncratic theology.