Los Angeles
Jonathan Skurnik - March 16th, 2011 / 7:30 p.m.
— Screening “I’m Just Anneke”
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
That’s what the film “I’m just Anneke” shows: an ordinary family living with a child whose gender identity is fluid. What do moms and dads do when their child transcends the “baby pink” and “baby blue” categories?
At the March meeting of PFLAG Los Angeles, Jonathan Skurnik screens a film about one particular, spunky gender non-conforming kid. Anneke is a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state.
The film, itself, is part of The Youth and Gender Media Project, a collection of short films that introduce the complexity, diversity, and ultimately the normality of transgender youth and their families to a broader audience.
Jonathan has produced and shot numerous award winning documentaries, including “Something’s Moving” about American Indian boarding schools, (winner of the Unspoken Truth award at the 2008 Media That Matters film festival) “The Elevator Operator” about a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan, (winner of the Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid), and “A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay” about welfare reform, (winner of the prestigious Harry Chapin award for films about hunger and poverty).
Come meet this talented filmmaker and learn more about the world of trans kids and their families.
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