Starting her life as Colin, a husband, father, policeman, film-projectionist and self-declared shoe fetishist, Colleen and her wife Heather's love transcended their gender roles. But what are the medical complications that can arise from transitioning later in life? Ian Thomson's Becoming Colleen examines the role of gender, about society's own transition to understanding, and a caring community that ultimately offers support for an individual to express themselves, to find comfortability in their own skin.
Herself
A year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.
A Colorado family is thrust into the international media spotlight when they fight for the rights of their 6-year-old transgender daughter in a landmark civil rights case.
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
Documentary produced by Laverne Cox. The hour-long documentary follows the lives of seven transgender youths. They hail from New York, New Orleans and Baltimore and range in age from 12 to 24 years old, but they share common obstacles and joys.
Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta through to gender transition in later life, Maria Paz Cabardo assembles a collage of artwork and archive alongside interviews with collaborators and some touchingly intimate conversations with the artist herself shortly before she died.
Two teenagers seek the fullness of their identities with time on top and normality against it. First hand testimony of transgender kids and the support of their family.
This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color. It is told through the voices of Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald.
A narrator embarks on a retrospective journey into the final months of school with their best friends. Over five chapters and an epilogue, they reflect on friendship, yearning, and the fears of losing contact with these individuals who are so significant to them. They were 17, more or less.
At the east of Mexico City, three people have decided to break the stereotypes set by society and build a new reality; where love, solidarity and dance are the axes.
In this documentary, a Hollywood hopeful immersed in geek subculture decides it's time to tell the world that he loves transgender women.
In the age of YouTube, exhibitionism and voyeurism echo and reach a climax. The boundaries between private and public life are blurring. The intimacy becomes a spectacle. Gabrielle Marion knows this better than anyone. As a famous Quebec Youtuber, she has been documenting her life and her sexual transition for eight years.
The story of the musical friendship between veteran musician/filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira and Lorenzo Barreto, a boy with autism, over 15 years.
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
A documentary about the macho owner of an auto wrecking company in Florida who goes into hiding from the law as a woman setting off a bizarre journey of self discovery. Undergoing a risky sex change operation, Gloria becomes a dominatrix, a transgender activist and finds a gender-bending love all while trying to reconcile with her dysfunctional family.
MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.
Never-ending coffee break… Three eternal students have chosen a lifestyle, that can not be measured by the standards of gain and productivity used by the outside world. In the midst of modern times, where people come, go and change, they have decided to halt and concentrate on the core questions of existence.