Behind Every Good Man (1967)

Directed by

Nick Elliot

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

How it feels

This short film follows an African-American trans woman through one day of her life in Los Angeles. It blends documentary and scripted elements to show her daily experiences.

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What happens

Behind Every Good Man is a 1967 American short film directed by Nikolai Ursin. The film follows an unidentified African-American trans woman through one day of her life in Los Angeles. In 2022, Behind Every Good Man was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Transgender film critics Willow Maclay and Caden Gardner characterized the film as "a hybrid of documentary and scripted fiction". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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