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- DirectorGwen HaworthStarsColleen HaworthGwen HaworthKim HaworthShe's a Boy I Knew is a comic, heartbreaking, uplifting autobiography that focuses on the interpersonal relationships of a family who unexpectedly find their bonds strengthening as they overcome their preconceptions of gender and sexuality.
- DirectorBrooke SeboldBenita SillsTodd SillsStarsClair FarleyJennie FarleyMark Oliver FarleyThe intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.
- DirectorJennie LivingstonStarsBrooke XtravaganzaAndré ChristianDorian CoreyA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
- DirectorJeffrey SchwarzStarsDivineMichael MustoMark PayneHow Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, became John Waters' cinematic muse and an international drag icon.
- DirectorBill WeberDavid WeissmanStarsLarry BrinkinPeggy CassThe CockettesDocumentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
- DirectorDean HamerJoe WilsonStarsLeo Anderson AkanaHaemaccelo KaluHo'Onani KamaiA transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles to find love and a committed relationship in her own life.
- DirectorAntonio SantiniDan SicklesStarsJason CarriónPaxx MollAlberic PradosA documentary about the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico.
- DirectorChris ArnoldStarsMasen DavisChristine McGinnTiffany WoodsTRANS is an extraordinary documentary feature about men and women, and all the variations in between. It is about the Transgender Community, perhaps the most misunderstood and mistreated minority in America and around the world. Inspired by the incredible story of Dr. Christine McGinn and her work as a transgender surgeon, TRANS provides an up-close and very personal vision into the lives, loves, and challenges of a remarkable cast of characters of all ages and from all walks of life. Stories of confusion and courage, excitement and emotion that have never been told, until now. To anyone who has ever looked in a mirror and wondered, 'who they really are?' TRANS ask another question, 'are you brave enough to find out?'
- DirectorKim LonginottoJano WilliamsStarsGaishTatsuKazukiShinjuku Boys is a 1995 film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams. It explores the lives of three transgender men who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo, Japan.
- DirectorT. Joe MurrayStarsT. Joe MurrayRosalyne BlumensteinKate BornsteinAfter finding an unusual website seeking funds to help reverse a sex change, the filmmaker sets out to explore the transgender community.
- DirectorKate DavisStarsRobert EadsLola ColaMaxwell Scott AndersonSouthern Comfort documents the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. By the time Eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life. Filmmaker Kate Davis follows Robert and a group of transgender Southerners in this captivating and truly touching documentary.
- DirectorErica TremblayA documentary about a 10-year-old transgender girl who finds acceptance and empowerment in the company of a queer roller derby collective.
- DirectorKimberly ReedStarsKimberly ReedCarol McKerrowMarc McKerrowFilmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long estranged adopted brother Marc.
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsSusan StrykerTexas TomboyAnnie SprinkleMonika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several transgender individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The individuals in this film are people whose assigned gender at birth does not match their social gender identity. The subject is pinpointed in the film independent of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
- DirectorJames RasinStarsCandy DarlingAndy WarholHolly WoodlawnA documentary on Candy Darling, The Life and Times of the Andy Warhol Superstar.
- DirectorTomer HeymannA group of transgender and gay Filipinos people emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group called the Paper Dolls. On the political level, it explores the perils of global immigration. In this case, after the second Intifada, the Israeli government unofficially opened its doors to illegal workers to replace the Palestinians who were no longer allowed in the country. As tensions with the Palestinians eased, the government changed its policy and began to forcibly deport these foreign guest workers with dramatic consequences for our characters. On the human level, the film is about people who are rejected by their own families for being gay or transgender and who emigrate and end up with jobs taking care of other people's parents who have been rejected by their own children because they are old, difficult, etc. They work grueling hours to send money back to the Philippines to support the families that have rejected them. As unbelievable as it may seem, these very different people (old religious Jews and transgender people from the Philippines) form very deep, quasi familial bonds.
- DirectorMaya Gallus
- DirectorAntony ThomasStarsGore VidalCalpernia AddamsBeth AynsleyExamines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.
- DirectorJanet BausDan HuntReid WilliamsStarsAshleyOphelia DeLonteAnna ConnellyFive transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianAn intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.
- DirectorPhoebe HartStarsPhoebe HartBonnie HartJames DavidsonDocumentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex condition.
- DirectorJosh AronsonStarsCalpernia AddamsChristine D. BeattyLynn ConwayIn February, 2004, with the help of Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda, a group of transgender women put on the first all-transgender production of "The Vagina Monologues", including a new monologue written by Ensler from their own experiences.
- DirectorMark HerzogSandrine OrabonaStarsKristin BeckIn "Lady Valor", former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as Kristin Beck as she lives her life truthfully as a transgender woman. In 2011, after 20 years of service on SEAL Team 1, she retired from service though continued to hide her true identity while working for the United States Government and the Pentagon. In 2013, a year and a half after retirement, Kristin came out publicly through LinkedIn and confirmed her true identity on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 taking many friends and family by surprise. While many people have been supportive, some in the some in the public have expressed more bigotry than she ever expected. After a lifetime of service, Kristin has learned that her fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness did not end on the battlefield.
- DirectorLeslie SchwerinStarsClair FarleyJess HerbstJim HowleyA documentary about young adult transgender men and women with their struggles and challenges living in our society. Interviews with their family members and their points of view is also included .
- DirectorWren WarnerTranspass is a short documentary exposing the negative effects of the gender sticker on the SEPTA transportation pass in Philadelphia. The film consists of personal interviews, footage of Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE) demonstrations and actions, as well as multimedia art and music created by people in the trans and queer community.
- DirectorCecilio AsuncionStarsNya AmponRakash ArmaniCassandra CassWhat's the T is a documentary that explores the challenges, successes and lives of five trans gender women. These five women represent normality and abnormality, seamlessly in their daily efforts to achieve a balance of feminine and masculine as the day may require. These women are prime examples of reality and self-identity.
- DirectorRobert CettlStarsNicki BullockRobert CettlTeri Louise KellyDocumentary of trans-gender punk author and Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust grant winner, Teri Louise Kelly. Shot over two years, the film covers Kelly's foray into the Adelaide spoken word underground 2010-12.
- DirectorKiwaTerje ToomistuWariazone explores the notion of trans-gender in Indonesia and relations between gender identity and freedom. It raises questions about the politicization of morality and religion in the country with the world's largest Moslem community.
- DirectorLee GrantStarsMonica Lynn B.Lee GrantChristine JorgensenFollows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
- DirectorVictor BuhlerArin and Katie look like the perfect teenage American couple in love. They hang out together, see friends and go to the movies, but their love is one in a million - Arin was born a girl and Katie was born a boy. They are both transgender.
- DirectorJay HodgesPJ RavalStarsStanley BiberMarci BowersLaura EllisTrinidad uncovers Trinidad, Colorado's transformation from Wild West outpost to "sex-change capital of the world," and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the "transsexual mecca."
- DirectorJeremy StanfordStarsErica AndrewsCassandra CassMimi MarksA behind-the-scenes look at the first-ever 'World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant.
- DirectorTorben BernhardStarsEd HaywardEri HaywardKeiko HaywardEri Hayward was born and raised in conservative Utah County, comes from a Mormon background, was raised in the LDS church and even went to Mormon private school -- but something wasn't adding up. Eri was born a boy and it was a slow, painful journey for her to recognize that she is transgender. This film catches up with 25-year-old Eri and her supportive family just before traveling abroad for her sexual reassignment surgery.
- DirectorWayne MahonStarsBlaine GrayAmy JenniferKristen LavesphereThe journey of Wayne Mahon as he struggles to openly and proudly love the transgender woman he is attracted to and come out of the closet to his rough and tumble, East Coast dad.
- DirectorFlavio FlorencioStarsMorganna LoveNoa HerreraMorgana is a Mexican transgender opera singer with a dream: a sex reassignment surgery. We follow her odyssey all the way to Bangkok as she fights for the identity she has been struggling all her life to construct.
- DirectorAaron BearStarsBuck AngelCalpernia AddamsKim ByfordA Seattle Transgender man begins to embark on his gender transition at 50 years old.
- DirectorMegan RohrerStarsZander KeigAn illustrated film, based on the oral histories of Zander Keig.
- DirectorSam FederJulie HollarStarsElizabeth ClineLucey CumminsJudith HalberstamWhile female-to-male transgender visibility has recently exploded in this country, conversations about trans issues in the lesbian community often run into resistance from the many queer women who view transitioning as a "trend" or as an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege. Boy I Am is a feature-length documentary that begins to break down that barrier and promote dialogue about trans issues through a look at the experiences of three young transitioning FTMs in New York City--Nicco, Norie and Keegan--as they go through major junctures in their transitions, as well as through the voices of lesbians, activists and theorists who raise and address the questions that many people have but few openly discuss.
- DirectorSam FederStarsBevin Bevin BranlandinghamMx Justin Vivian BondKate BornsteinFor decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender. And, her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering Gender Outlaw. Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, joins her on her latest tour capturing rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist theorist activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style, and astonishing candor. By turns meditative and playful, the film invites us on a thought provoking journey through Kate's world to seek answers to some of life's biggest questions.
- DirectorSamuel CentoreGene FischerPASSING ELLENVILLE follows two transgender youths in a small, economically-depressed town in the Catskills mountains of New York and their struggles during the gender transition process. James, female-to-male, comes from a history of abuse and a string of family problems. Ashlee, male-to-female, struggles to align her orthodox Jewish faith with her transgender identity. The film exposes a side of transgender youth we have not seen in the national news media. These are transgender youth at the margins of society living in Any Town, USA, barely surviving on government assistance and food stamps and facing tremendous prejudice and hate. However, the film also shows how each of the subjects, including their older and wiser transgender mentor, find their own pockets of happiness in their life journey.
- DirectorChantal PoupaudCrossdresser is an unusual film built on a paralel world of transformation and utter secrecy. Four portraits of men who, from time to time, ritualistically dress and make up their faces as women, as the name of the documentary indicates.
- DirectorSusan MuskaGréta OlafsdóttirStarsDaphneReannaGinaDocumentary about a multiple murder in rural Nebraska in 1993.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsCherChaz BonoGeorgia HoltDocumentary following Chaz (formerly Chastity) Bono's gender transition. Includes interviews with family members and friends as the transition is followed.
- DirectorTom BarrowStarsLouis TherouxCamilleCaseyLouis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of doctors help kids who claim to be born in the wrong body.
- StarsStephanie BattaglinoVicki EstradaLisa I. RoadBotSEX CHANGE HOSPITAL is a six part series based in Trinidad, Colorado, the sex change capital of the world. Each one hour episode is a self-contained journey following 2 people as they take the final step in their transition from one gender to another. Dr. Marci Bowers performs the surgeries and calls upon her own experiences as a transgender woman to guide her patients as they go through the ultimate life changing procedure.
- DirectorShirly BerkovitzThe unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand by lying to his conservative parents and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream.
- DirectorJeff RoyStarsRaymund ImperialMaya JaferKabir OrlowskiA look at the emotional side of transition through the story of a devout Muslim from India named Maya, who was persecuted by her orthodox Muslim family and religious community when undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
- DirectorSuzanne AliThe real life story of trans-gendered couple Emily and Cai. Emily (born male) impregnates her husband Cai (born female).
- DirectorSean BlochStarsLisa MillerAfter living nearly 60 years with a burdensome secret, a successful man of faith risks everything by revealing his female identity.
- DirectorJen StocksStarsJazz JenningsJeanette JenningsGreg JenningsIn the documentary special (I AM JAZZ: A Family in Transition) follows the life of an extraordinary family and their transgendered daughter.
- DirectorSam ZoltenStarsGentry McShaneThe inspiring true story of Kade Farlow Collins 14, FTM (female to male) transgendered, and living with an incredibly understanding family in Tucson Arizona.
- DirectorCory PrattStarsMary Elizabteh ClarkKevin Marshall RakestrawTeri Butler WilliamsKevin is a hardworking college student from East Tennessee who, unlike most guys, was actually born a girl. From an early age he always felt that he was born into the wrong body, but he never discovered his true identity until he discovered what being Transgender really means. Warm and humanistic, 'This is Kevin' is a candid look at a young man coming to terms with who he really is, while finding true happiness on the way.
- DirectorSusan KoenenEvery 13-year-old girl dreams of that nice, but hard-to-get, boy. And Joppe is no different, consulting her friend on how to ask Brian out. But just how should she tell Brian that she was born a boy?
- DirectorAlice BouvrieTHY WILL BE DONE follows a transgender woman, Sara Herwig in her path to ordination in the Presbyterian Church. Efforts have been made to block her ordination by the evangelical conservative groups who don't recognize her as a woman and question her fitness to be a Pastor.. - but who also challenge her candidacy because she is in a same-sex relationship, with a woman. At issue is the organized Christian Church, with all its political and financial power, as one of the fiercest battlegrounds for LGBT rights and gender recognition. Sara's journey highlights the tensions that exist at the point where faith and gender intersect.
- DirectorRodney WerdenIn 1978 an 18 year old man talks about his upcoming sex change operation and how he expects his life to be afterwards.
- DirectorLaurence PérigaudLaurence PérigaudStarsChrista MuthA management professor, about to turn 60, takes the plunge - a year in which Chris becomes Christa.
- DirectorStephanie WynneStarsDelwin FieldsStephanie WynneAn ex-marine and father of two undergoes a gender reassignment operation to become a transsexual lesbian.
- DirectorMaureen MaherStarsMaureen MaherThis isn't just another transgender documentary. Journalist Maureen Maher met Kayla in 2003 when she was just 11 year old, trying to convince her mother and doctors to allow her to begin hormone therapy... Kayla became one of the youngest in the U-S at the time to begin the transition to living as a boy. It was considered a medical, ethical and cultural experiment. Maher follows Kayla, now Kaden, through a seven year journey, the entire length of adolescence, through surgeries, hormones, legal issues, teen angst, sex. It's a profoundly intimate biography of both the child -- and the mother, who's been ridiculed, abandoned by family and friends and left for broke. But mostly, this is a love story between a parent and a child.
- DirectorIvan E. CoyoteDocumentary look at a transgendered female to male person and his queer family.
- DirectorEmily AtefInterview with "Jake" a young transgendered Brit who is undergoing the process of changing from female to male.
- DirectorAngelica GamboaStarsAndy Martinez Jr.Georgina ZorrillaPatrizia MedranoA character-based senior comprehensives film that explores a transgender child's first day of school in her new identity and how her strength inspires her caretakers (her aunt and aunt's friend) to each face their own identity-based challenges head-on.
- DirectorGabrielle PescadorJuan Javier PescadorRedefining their identities in their own terms three transgenders show resilience and strength in their fight to live their true heart and soul. Searching for understanding and respect, these brave individuals share their continuous struggles throughout the various phases of their life cycle and transitioning process. In spite of facing ignorance, prejudice and discrimination, their personal horizons mirror the vicissitudes, aspirations and dreams of the trans communities in contemporary society.
- DirectorBeatrice AldaJ BrookeStarsLeanna BradleyCathy JambrosicWalter RothenburgerThis feature film looks at five individuals who made a decisive change later in life-to come out as lesbian, gay, or trans gender, after the age of 55. Why did they wait until their 50's, 60's, or 70's to come out? And what was the turning point that caused each of these people finally to openly declare their sexuality? From Canada to Florida, to Kansas, we find out what ultimately led these dynamic individuals to make the liberating choice to pursue fully integrated lives.
- DirectorChelsea McMullanStarsChase ConstantinoRae SpoonAlberta singer/songwriter Rae Spoon reflects on gender identity, faith, and the challenges of family through songs and stories.
- DirectorJanice VillarosaStarsBeyonce AmagoJimmy Lou AntepuestoPaolo ApiladoA documentary about the trauma and struggles faced by a group of Trans women in the Philippines as they compete in a pageant and find strength in their convictions and one other.
- DirectorKathy HuangWhile many in the Western world view Islam as socially repressive, in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, exists a community of biological men who live openly as women-- the warias. As four warias strive to find romance, intimacy, and acceptance, they encounter unique obstacles that force them to make extraordinary sacrifices to keep the ones they love.
- DirectorSylvie LeveyPascal VasselinStarsSing JinXing JinAs a man, Jin Xing was a colonel in China's People's Liberation Army. Now as a woman she's a mother, a world class ballerina, an actress, and China's most famous modern dancer. This is her story.
- DirectorPablo García Pérez de LaraMarc SerenaStarsTchinda AndradeEdinha PitangaElvis TolentinoTchinda is one of most beloved women in Cape Verde, especially after she came out as a transgender person in the local newspaper in 1998. Since then, her name has become the term used by locals to name queer Cape Verdeans. Despite her great reputation, Tchinda remains humble and every afternoon she happily tours the neighborhood to sell her best "coxinhas", a classic Brazilian treat: delicious fried balls of chicken. But every February all changes. It's the month leading up to their Carnival, when the slow-paced atmosphere of the island transforms into a frenzied hustle and bustle as thousands flock to the streets. The days before the Carnival are hectic. Locals join forces to create something beautiful out of nothing. It becomes a «Little Brazil» as their most acclaimed singer, Cesária Évora (1941-2011), defined in one of her most famous "mornas". This documentary is as trip to an unknown side of Africa that very few may have ever imagined.
- DirectorLeslie von PlessStarsRobina AstiAt 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow.
- DirectorSarah FeeleyPresented by CNN Films, RAISING RYLAND is a documentary film by Sarah Feeley that takes an intimate look at parenting with no strings attached. The short focuses on the transgender experience as lived by Ryland Whittington and his two loving parents, Hillary and Jeff.
- DirectorMichiel van ErpStarsApril AshleyColette BerendsJean LessenichI Am A Woman Now (formerly Casablanca Revisited), the first generation of transsexuals who had their sex change in Casablanca back in the mid-1950s to 1960s take stock of their lives. Do these pioneers feel like total women and did it give them the fulfillment in life they expected ? The women featured in the film were all treated by the same 'miracle doctor', Georges Burou. As long as these 'patients' paid, there were no pre-conditions, no questions asked at his clinic in Casablanca. A film about the pursuit of an almost unattainable dream, about the gap between its realization and the hard reality that sometimes follows.
- DirectorColin RothbartStarsPia ArberHolestarScotteeFilmed over six years and following six celebrated performers as they swim against the tide, the film follows the literal highs and graphic lows of this popular tribe, revealing the personal struggles of each heroine.
- DirectorJules RosskamStarsJosh MoltaneA documentary about 19 female-to-male transsexuals from 14 different states who have given birth and, in most instances, gone on to raise their biological children.