She's a Boy I Knew (2007)

Directed by

Gwen Haworth

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

1.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her own gender transition. The film combines home videos, interviews, and animation to show how her transition affected her friends and family.

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What happens

She's a Boy I Knew is a Canadian documentary film by Gwen Haworth, released in 2007. The film documents Haworth's process of coming out as transgender and undergoing gender transition, using a combination of interviews, home video footage, short animation clips and interviews with her friends and family about its impact on them. The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2007. It won the People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film, and Haworth won the Women in Film and Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award. At the 2008 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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