Using interviews, animation, old family footage, and voice mail, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife. Calling for a new era of DIY transgender self-representation, Haworth’s feature debut ibreaks away from the marginalized depictions of transsexuals that populate mainstream media and focuses on the interpersonal relationships of a family who unexpectedly find their bonds strengthening as they overcome their preconceptions of gender and sexuality.
Production Shapeshifter Films
AUDIO: English
SUBTITLE: Romanian
awards and festivals
2007 – Vancouver International Film Festival – Most Popular Canadian Film 2008 – Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – Best Documentary Award 2008 – Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival – Best Documentary Award