 is the debut documentary from filmmaker Jason Barker. Autobiographical and made entirely from personal archive and home video diaries, the film follows Jason's incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of his and his partner's life. This film is groundbreaking in terms of it's intimate insights into gender identity and new parenthood.

A Deal With The Universe

Deafness may appear to be his disability, but that isn't what makes Austin self-conscious. This is a film at the intersection of Deaf and transgender.


Burdened by female anatomy, he binds his chest every day. While his mother strives to accept his male identity, Austin's community views him as a pioneer. A natural comedian and romantic, Austin's courageous journey is shared in 

, which follows him through personal reflections, family interactions, and even into the operating room.


, a deaf journey of transgender heroism" breaks through barriers and tells a sensitive story with grace and heart.

Austin Unbound – A Deaf Journey of Transgender Heroism

In 1999, just six years after the rape and murder of a young gender variant person, Brandon Teena, and two friends in a small town in Nebraska, Kim Peirce released her first film, a dramatic account of the incident. The film, 

, which took years to research, write, fund, cast and shoot, was released to superb reviews and went on to garner awards and praise for the lead actor, Hilary Swank, and the young director, Kim Peirce, not to mention the film’s production team led by Christine Vachon.

The film was hard-hitting, visually innovative and marked a massive breakthrough in the representation of gender-variant bodies. While there were certainly debates about decisions that Peirce made within the film’s narrative arc (the omission of the murder of an African American friend, Philip DeVine, at the same time that Brandon was killed), 

 was received by audiences at the time as a magnificent film honouring the life of a gender queer youth and bringing a sense of the jeopardy of gender variant experiences to the screen. It was also seen as a sensitive depiction of life in small town USA. Kim Peirce spoke widely about the film in public venues and explained her relationship to the subject matter of gender variance, working-class life and gender-based violence.

The casting process for Brandon Teena on behalf of the feature film - Boys Don’t Cry: 

”The actor selected for the starring role was Hilary Swank, a cisgender woman. She earned widespread praise for her portrayal and won the Academy Award for best actress in 2000. But at the outset, co-writer and director Kimberly Peirce (he/she) had intended to cast a trans man. Over the course of more than three years, Peirce conducted hundreds of interviews — both as research for writing the film and in an effort to cast the central role. At the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, you can see Hilary Swank’s audition to play Brandon along with auditions from two trans men who were also considered: Silas Howard and Harry Dodge.” 

Later Dodge and Howard would go on to make by Hook and by Crook (2001).

Boys Don’t Cry

 is an animated, experimental, personal documentary about the filmmaker's first year on testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective.

Change Over Time

Artist, musician and filmmaker Stan Greengrass’ documentary 

 explores the sacrifice of starting HRT for trans singers who rely on their voice for performance.

Down There The Seafolk Live

 tells the story of AJ and his family and showcases a stunning photographic record of his physical transition from female to male by Melbourne artist Alison Bennett.

Melbourne man AJ Kearns describes himself as just an ordinary father living in the suburbs with his two children. But there are many who would disagree.
Born into a conservative Pentecostal family in Sydney, AJ spent the ﬁrst 35 years of his life as a woman.


As a teenager Vicki-Anne thought she was gay and attended controversial church-based conversion therapy in the hope of becoming heterosexual.
After years of struggle AJ realised that he was a man and went on to create a family with his partner Zu White. But he then took the surprising step of postponing his physical transition to become pregnant.


Psychiatrist Dr Fintan Harte says it's the ﬁrst time in over 30 years of practice that he's encountered a 'trans-identiﬁed male' who has conceived a child.

From Daddy’s Tummy

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a transgender, septuagenarian musical genius finally finds his place in the world. Part biopic, part tour documentary, Keyboard Fantasies tells the time-travelling tale of this mystical musician and vocalist, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74

Keyboard Fantasies

 is an experimental, historical narrative set in a mythologized, post-revolutionary Russia that re-imagines the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with a twist of gender anarchy. Agit-prop theatre group 

 guides the viewer through the story, which is narrated by fictionalized letters written by Stepan Petrichenko, the leader of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee.

Maggots and Men

A short documentary about growing up as a transmasc person.

American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. 

 seeks to correct that misrepresentation by collaborating with trans artists. As they collectively celebrate Tipton’s story as a musician living his life according to his own terms, they paint a portrait of a trans culture icon.

 features leading voices and breakout stars in the trans community, including Marquise Vilsón, Scott Turner Schofield, Susan Stryker, C. Riley Snorton, and Thomas Page McBee, among others.

No Ordinary Man

"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, 

, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. 

For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.

Orlando: My Political Biography

Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.

PIRATE BOYS

 is a documentary about the filmmaker's relationship with his mother and how it is evolving and transforming as he transitions genders.


 has screened in over 65 film festivals, community events, and art events nationally and worldwide. SPIRAL TRANSITION won
two audience choice awards for best short documentary at the CNKY LGBT Film Festival and Louisville LGBT Film Festival in 2012.

Spiral Transition

 is a true glimpse into my continuous mental processing. A dialog which tends to reflect and deflect a generalized public perspective that is designed to dictate humanity.

Diamond’s grainy experimental film is the first in a series that tackles issues of sexuality with a fearless approach. Navigating the psychological manifestations of a hybrid gender identity, Diamond explores issues of body and mind capturing the complex nature of his topic.

The sequel to Man from Venus by James Diamond (super 8, 4 min, 1998). She's an answer without a question and he a question without answer. A sustainable foreground emerges only when they forge paths. A motion portrait where opposites distract and the peripheral rule is born.

The Man From Venus 

An illustrated film, based on the oral histories of Zander Keig. 

shows the transitional wisdom that Zander has learned while paralyzed, in a mental hospital, a gang, in the military, transitioning from female-to-male and as a social worker.

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