queerguru is always something in awe of trans activist & filmmaker Jake Graf and his powerful body of work that continues to offer insights into the daily challenges of being trans. He is also someone who are we honored to be able to call our friend. This new short film Headspace that he wrote and directed and starred in alongside an all trans cast that features his significant-other Hannah Winterbourne reveals the difficulty of tasks most people take for granted, such as making a phone call or to going to the gym.
Jake told the Huffington Post ‘I think there is a popular misconception that once a trans person has medically transitioned, and settled into a ‘mainstream’ lifestyle, that all the struggles, challenges and discrimination simply fade away. I wanted to give a glimpse into some very personal and awkward experiences that I’m sure as trans folk we all go through, but that are to some degree universal, and that we all go through now and again.’
P.S. queerguru thinks you may also like http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2016/02/jake-graf-the-man-of-the-moment-talks-with-roger-walker-dack
and http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2016/07/13864
Labels: 2017, documentary, Jake Graf, short, trans
