synopsis.
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.
transparent focuses on its subjects' lives as parents – revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles this part of their history 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 ones gender is dealt with and impacts the relationships, if at all, within these families.
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.
PAST
Queens Museum of Art
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Helen Day Art Center
Manchester Pride Film Festival
Kansai Queer Film Festival Japan
Gallery 400, Chicago
Schwules Museum Berlin
WTTW Public Broadcasting, Chicago
Out and Equal Workplace Summit
Vancouver Queer Film and Video Festival
The Netherlands Transgender Film Festivall
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
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
Family EQuity Council Film Screening Series
Rainbow Pride Bratislava Film Festival
Paris Feminist Film Festival
Northwestern University
Lesgaicinemadrid Film Festival
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
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance
Mardis Gras Film Festival
The Pioneer Theater, New York City
Reeling: Chicago LGBT Film Festival
Outfest LGBT Film Festival
Philadelphia Internaitonal Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
NewFest LGBT Film Festival
Frameline: San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival