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Born to Be (2019)
Directed by Tania Cypriano
“When you see yourself, who do you see?”
Documentary · 1h 33m
Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
Cast
Leiomy Maldonado
Garnet Rubio
Jordan Rubenstein
Crew
- Director
- Tania Cypriano
- Director of Photography
- Jeffrey Johnson
- Editor
- Christopher White, Scott K. Foley
- Producer
- Michelle Koo Hayashi
Details
- Release date
- 2019-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Transformation Productions, Justice-Partners