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Randy Barbato
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Randy Barbato

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Writer, director, and producer Randy Barbato has a soft spot for making films about public figures ostracized or misunderstood by the media and, by extension, society at large. Along with his life and creative partner, Fenton Bailey, Barbato has created some of the more groundbreaking and sometimes controversial documentaries and made-for-TV specials. A native of New Jersey, Barbato attended graduate film school at New York University, where he met Fenton Bailey, originally from Great Britain. Both dropped out after a year to form a pop band, The Pop Tarts. In 1990, the duo created their own company, World of Wonder Productions, with the intention of recording Pop Tarts music, but only…

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2020RuPaul's Drag Race: Bring Back My GhoulsExecutive ProducerMovie
2020Freedia Got a GunProducerMovie
2020Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot FuckerProducerMovie
201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand ReleasingDirectorMovie
2019Liberty: Mother of ExilesDirector · ProducerMovie
2019Can You Keep a Secret?ThanksMovie
2019Stonewall OutloudProducer · DirectorMovie
2019Werq the WorldExecutive Producer · 10 episodesShow
2019Trixie Mattel: Moving PartsExecutive ProducerMovie
2018RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-Slay SpectacularExecutive ProducerMovie
2018Follow MeExecutive Producer · 8 episodesShow
2018When the Beat DropsProducerMovie
2017Menendez: Blood BrothersDirector · Executive ProducerMovie
2017Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie CouricExecutive ProducerMovie
2016Every Brilliant ThingDirectorMovie
2016Mapplethorpe: Look at the PicturesDirector · ProducerMovie
2016Out of Iraq: A Love StoryProducerMovie
2016All My Gay Friends Are Getting MarriedExecutive Producer · 5 episodesShow
2014Dressed as a GirlExecutive ProducerMovie
2013I Am Britney JeanDirectorMovie
2012In Vogue: The Editor's EyeDirectorMovie
2011The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't TellDirectorMovie
2011Becoming ChazDirectorMovie
2010Carrie Fisher: Wishful DrinkingProducer · DirectorMovie
2009When I KnewDirectorMovie
2008Reverend DeathExecutive ProducerMovie
2008Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of CrystalDirectorMovie
2007Miss NavajoExecutive ProducerMovie
2005Tammy Faye Death DefyingExecutive ProducerMovie
2005Inside Deep ThroatDirector · Screenplay · ProducerMovie
2004Linklater: St. Richard of AustinExecutive ProducerMovie
2004The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's SexualityDirector · Executive ProducerMovie
2004Vivid ValleyExecutive Producer · 13 episodesShow
2003Party MonsterDirector · Screenplay · ProducerMovie
2002The Truth About Gay SexExecutive ProducerMovie
2002Monica in Black and WhiteDirectorMovie
2001Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William HainesDirector · ProducerMovie
2001The Secret Rulers of the WorldProducer · 5 episodesShow
2001Lesbians Go Mad In LesbosExecutive ProducerMovie
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1999Pornography: The Secret History Of CivilizationExecutive Producer · 6 episodesShow
1998Party Monster: The ShockumentaryDirectorMovie
1997ShantayDirectorMovie
1997Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV Positive ThinkingDirectorMovie
1997The Real Ellen StoryDirectorMovie
1994Nelson Sullivan's World Of WonderProducer · DirectorMovie
1993RuPaul's Christmas BallDirector · ProducerMovie
1993Videos, Vigilantes and VoyeurismDirector · ProducerMovie

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