From Birth to Chosen
| From Birth to Chosen | |
Mind | |
.jpg) | Austraila, 2011, 26 min Genre/Subjects: Arts & Literature, Coming Out, Discrimination, Parenting / Family, Transgender, Female-to-Male, Biography Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Emma Crimmings |
| Look Who's Morphing writer Tom Cho reflects upon his experiences as a Chinese tomboy growing up in Australia who felt deeply the disappointment of his mother when he rejected dolls and pink walls in favor of Star Wars toys and Godzilla. Mind artfully incorporates archival, fantasy and interview footage to illustrate Cho's descriptions of transition as both a creative and destructive process. | |
Bearded Man (Mann mit Bart) | |
.jpg) | Germany, 2011, 11 min Genre/Subjects: Coming Out, Transgender, Family, Language: in German with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Maria Pavlidou |
| Now Meral is a grown up woman trying to explain to her very traditional family that beards are more important to her in ways they could have never imagined. | |
James Dean | |
.jpg) | UK, 2010, 8 min Genre/Subjects: Coming Out, Transgender, Female-to-Male, Youth, Family / Parenting Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Lucy Asten Elliot |
| 'James Dean' follows the Faulkners as they desperately try to leave for their family holiday. Efforts to co-ordinate the trip are thwarted by their inability to get all members into the car at the same time. Frustrated by their dawdling, 14 year old daughter Alex has picked this inopportune moment to tell her elder sister Morvern, Mum and Dad her secret. However, with a distracted and currently disinterested family, she realises the only way to tell them is to show them. | |
Spiral Transition | |
.jpg) | USA, 2010, 6 min Genre/Subjects: Coming Out, Transgender, Youth, Biography Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Ewan Duarte |
| Follow a filmmaker’s evolving relationship with his mother as he transitions. | |
Thinking Straight | |
.jpg) | UK, 2010, 9 min Genre/Subjects: Coming Out, Transgender, Female-to-Male, Youth Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Ric Forester |
| A coming of age drama about struggling with your sexuality, first time relationships and finding out who you really are. | |
I’m Just Anneke | |
.jpg) | USA/Canada, 2010, 11 min Genre/Subjects: Coming Out, Transgender, Family / Parenting, Biography, Youth Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Jonathan Skurnik |
| The story of Anneke a gender fluid twelve–year–old girl who’s taking hormone blockers that delay puberty so she can decide if she wants to be male, female, or somewhere in–between, when she grows up. | |
Franswa Sharl | |
.jpg) | Australia, 2009, 14 min Genre/Subjects: Comedy, Coming Out, Drag, Gay, Gender, Parenting / Family , Youth Language: in English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Hannah Hillard |
| Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father’s competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg goes to bizarre lengths to win him back. | |
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