ABOUT THE FILM

LONG SYNOPSIS

DISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.

Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood’s most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don’t Cry, and with shows like “The Jeffersons,” “The L-Word,” and “Pose,” they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing, yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous.

What emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen, society’s beliefs, and the reality of trans lives. Reframing familiar scenes and iconic characters in a new light, director Sam Feder invites viewers to confront unexamined assumptions, and shows how what once captured the American imagination now elicits new feelings.

DISCLOSURE provokes a startling revolution in how we see and understand trans people.

Director Sam Feder

Producers Amy Scholder, Sam Feder

Executive Producers Laverne Cox, Caroline Libresco, Laura Gabbert, S. Mona Sinha, Abigail E. Disney, Lynda Weinman, Michael Sherman, Matthew Perniciaro, Charlotte Cook

Co-Producers Eliza Licht, Lisa Remington

Consulting Producers Catherine Gund, Jenni Olson, Susan Stryker

Associate Producers Paul Hilepo, Alex Schmider
Impact Producer Eliza Licht

Editor Stacy Goldate

Cinematographer Ava Benjamin Shorr

Production Designers Avram Finkelstein, Sofia Midon

Music Francesco Le Metre
Creative Consultants Nick Adams, Tre’vell Anderson, Ser Anzoategui, Alex Barasch, Alexandra Billings, Chaz Bono, Sandra Caldwell, Candis Cayne, Jamie Clayton, Michael D. Cohen, Zackary Drucker, Elliot Fletcher, Yance Ford, Alexandra Grey, Jazzmun, Bianca Leigh, Trace Lysette, Mickey R. Mahoney, Tiq Milan, Jen Richards, Mj Rodriguez, Angelica Ross, Hailie Sahar, Leo Sheng, Brian Michael Smith, Zeke Smith, Chase Strangio, Susan Stryker, Rain Valdez, Marquise Vilsón, Lilly Wachowski

FESTIVALS
2020: Sundance (World Premiere)

AVAILABLE TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
Blu-Ray, DCP