An ACLU lawyer prepares to testify to the US Supreme Court against an anti-trans ruling in Heightened Scrutiny. In December 2024, Chase Strangio, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, became the first openly trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court. Strangio is followed in the weeks prior to this testimony…
A UCLA study about sex disorders from the 1950s and 1960s is reenacted in the style of a talk show in Framing Agnes. Using never-before-seen transcripts from the archive of Dr. Harold Garfinkel, filmmaker Chase Joynt sets out to recreate Garfinkel’s interviews with gender non-conforming individuals. Garfinkel’s key subject was Agnes (Zackary Drucker), who would…
A woman seeks vengeance against predatory men in Promising Young Woman. Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan) is a 30-year-old med school dropout, who still lives at home with her parents and works in a coffee shop. At night, Cassie makes it a habit to go to clubs and confront the men who try to take advantage…
