TRANSPARENT

Pink or blue. Male or Female. Mommy or Daddy. Categories that we all take for granted are blown wide open in "transparent," a documentary film about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children.

"transparent" focuses on its subjects' lives as parents – revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles this part of their history - giving birth and being biological mothers - now that they identify as male and are perceived by the world, but only sometimes by their children, as men. The first-person stories in "transparent" explain how changing genders is dealt with and impacts the relationships, if at all, within these families.

This film has a shocking façade - as a story about transsexual parents – but viewers will be struck by its universality. The subjects resonate powerfully as parents and human beings dealing with issues like single parenthood, teen pregnancy and their children's emotional and physical development. But through these extraordinary men, the film challenges like never before, the ways that we relate to one another, particularly within our immediate families, based on gender.

PRESS

Hampshire Gazzette, Pushing Boundaries / 2012  ➡  View PDF

Curve, 10 Must-See Gender Documentaries / 2006  ➡  View PDF

Velvet Park, In The Gender Blender / 2005  ➡  View PDF

 

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

 

PAST SCREENINGS

2009

  • Manchester Pride Film Festival

2008

  • Kansai Queer Film Festival Japan
  • WTTW Public Broadcasting, Chicago

2007

  • Out and Equal Workplace Summit 
  • Vancouver Queer Film and Video Festival 
  • The Netherlands Transgender Film Festival 
  • Fairytales Film Festival 
  • Athens LGBT film Festival 
  • Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 
  • Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage 
  • National Women's Studies Association Conference 
  • Munich Women's Filmfest Bimovie 
  • WPIRG Rainbow Reel Film Festival 
  • 18. Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg 
  • Image + Nation 
  • Paris Lesbian Film Festival 

2006

  • Hamburg International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • 1st annual Warsaw LGBT Film Festival - WINNER BEST NEW FILM
  • North Carolina LGBT Film Festival 
  • Pink Days Amsterdam 
  • Paris Feminist Film Festival 
  • Northwestern University 
  • Lesgaicinemadrid Film Festival 2006
  • Guelph International Film Festival 
  • • Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 
  • Glasgay! Film Festival 
  • Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival 
  • Florence Queer Film Festival 
  • Inside/Out Festival Toronto - WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY, 3RD PLACE
  • London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 

2005

  • Insdiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance 
  • Mardis Gras Film Festival 
  • The Pioneer Theater 
  • Reeling: Chicago LGBT Film Festival 
  • Outfest 
  • Philadelphia Internaitonal Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 
  • NewFest
  • San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival