FESTIVAL AWARDS

• Best Short, DOC NYC 2015
• Jury Award, Best Documentary Short, Palm Springs ShortFest
• Audience Award, Best Short, Nantucket Film Festival
• Grand Prize, Viola M. Marshall Audience Choice Award for Best LGBTQ Film, Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Jury Award for Best Short, MiFo LGBT Film Festival Fort Lauderdale
• Nominated for Short Doc, Sheffield Doc/Fest

"An effective teaching tool, this program provides a discussion point on gender issues for educators and students." -Library Journal

"Recommended. A convincing argument for acknowledging inborn gender preferences."– Booklist (ALA)

"Illustrates that people can have different struggles with the gender identity of others but can overcome those struggles to be positive and supportive. It is a very quick glimpse of a young child's gender presentation and a unique angle on how that presentation affects others. ...It is heartening to see his mothers work through their issues and to support him on his gender quest."- Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review

PRODUCER STATEMENT:

"As a gay man who grew up in a different era, I experienced what it was like to be in the closet. I was inspired to make this film when I started hearing stories of families whose children expressed their gender differences at the earliest age. It made me start thinking about what would it be like if you grew up and you were never in the closet. And how would that affect your identity and your confidence and how you approach the world? So I had this vision of an entire generation of kids someday growing up that way. When I met BJ, Sherrie, and Jeffrey (now Jessie), I felt that I had found the family that could best tell this story.”
- Eric Rockey