''TransMilitary'' is a 2018 American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by Gabriel Silverman and Fiona Dawson, about transgender service members fighting to serve openly in the U.S. military. The film premiered at the

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Film Festival in 2018, and was released in the

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on January 8, 2019. ''TransMilitary'' was the first documentary feature to receive financial assistance from

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Media Institute.

Synopsis

Building upon the short New York Times op-doc, Transgender, at War and in Love (2015), this feature documents the lives of four American active duty transgender troops who are advocating to end the ban on their service. The film gives insight into their familial, personal and professional lives, which represent approximately 15,500 transgender service members within America's all-volunteer military. After a series of secret meetings with top brass officials inside the Pentagon, their policy battle is won. But President Trump's tweets in 2017 flip their lives upside down yet again, leaving them with the question of if they will be finally granted the right to serve.

Appearances

* El Cook * Logan Ireland * Jennifer Peace * Laila Villanueva * Sue Fulton * Jesse M. Ehrenfeld * James P. Isenhower III * Eric Fanning * Emma Thompson * Daniel Fisher

Release

''TransMilitary'' premiered at

SXSW South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...

on March 10, 2018, where it won the Audience Award. Shortly after, the film entered more than 10 film festivals and won several awards all over the world. ''TransMilitary'' made its television debut on Logo TV in November 2018.

Reception

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, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews. Beth Sullivan of Austin Chronicle calls it "informative and visually engaging." John DeFore of

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calls ''TransMilitary'' "an affecting and, despite present circumstances, hopeful doc." Jacqueline Coley of

picks ''TransMilitary'' as one of "the 8 best films hesaw at

2018."

References

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