List of transgender film and television directors
This is a list of transgender film and television directors. Their works may include live action, animated, documentary, and short films; television series and movies, web series, and videos.
Transgender directors
Trans men
- Skyler Cooper[1]
- Morty Diamond[2]
- Rhys Ernst[3]
- Sam Feder[4]
- StormMiguel Florez[5]
- Yance Ford[6]
- Jake Graf[7]
- Silas Howard[8]
- Sir Lex Kennedy[9]
- Seven King[10]
- Emmett Lundberg[11]
- AJ Mattioli[12]
- Elliot Page[13]
- Ashley Hans Scheirl[14]
- Campbell X[15]
- Raven Two Feathers[16]
Trans women
- M. J. Bassett
- Lucy Belgum[17]
- Zackary Drucker[18]
- Sydney Freeland[19]
- ND Johnson[20]
- Selene Kapsaski[21]
- Nava Mau[22]
- Janet Mock[23]
- Kimberly Reed[24]
- Isabel Sandoval[25]
- D. Smith[26]
- Tourmaline[27]
- Wu Tsang[28]
- Rain Valdez[29]
- Lana Wachowski[30]
- Lilly Wachowski[31]
Non-Binary
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- ^ Aja (June 30, 2021). "Trans Filmmaker Lex Kennedy Pushes For Positive Narratives About Black Transgender Men". Gaye. Archived from the original on 2021-07-01.
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- ^ "Campbell X: Experimenting with narrative to find your voice". Scottish Documentary Institute. 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Raven Two Feathers | Filmmakers | Firelight Media". www.firelightmedia.tv. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
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- ^ "Director Zackary Drucker on telling Liz Carmichael's story in "The Lady and The Dale"". GLAAD. February 7, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-08.
- ^ Ahtone, Tristan (June 10, 2019). "Characters on the margins: An interview with Sydney Freeland". High Country News. Archived from the original on 2019-06-11.
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- ^ Donnelly, Matt (June 19, 2019). "Janet Mock Signs Landmark Overall Netflix Deal (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
- ^ Harris, Paul (6 February 2010). "Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed wows America with Prodigal Sons". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-09-09.
- ^ Ramachandran, Naman (October 15, 2021). "Isabel Sandoval Calls for Layered and Complex Trans Characters in Film and TV – BFI London Film Festival". Variety.
- ^ D'Souza, Shaad (19 July 2023). "Kokomo City director D Smith: 'A lot of trans documentaries are snoozefests'". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ Zukin, Meg (July 2, 2020). "'Salacia' Filmmaker Tourmaline on Spotlighting Black Trans Lives and the LGBT Journey to Mainstream Recognition". Variety.
- ^ Staff (October 5, 2018). "Trans filmmaker Wu Tsang gets 'MacArthur Genius Grant'". Los Angeles Blade. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18.
- ^ "Emmy-nominated Guam filmmaker sets movie on island". Pacific News Center. June 3, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03.
- ^ Burkholder, Katie (August 22, 2019). "Transgender Writer and Director Lana Wachowski Makes History with The Matrix 4". The Georgia Voice. Archived from the original on 2019-09-13.
- ^ Davies, Caroline; Sweney, Mark (9 March 2016). "Film director Lilly Wachowski comes out as transgender woman". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2016-03-09.
- ^ Longo, Joseph (October 18, 2021). "Sundance Is Launching a Program for Trans Filmmakers". Them. Archived from the original on 2021-10-18.
- ^ Marlin, Natalie (April 25, 2022). "Jane Schoenbrun: 'I wanted the film to feel like we're lost in the haze of the internet'". Little White Lies.