In the 10 years since TIME Magazine declared the Transgender Tipping Point, trans visibility and anti-trans violence have simultaneously proliferated, creating a unique paradox for trans people. Concluding the Trans Possibilities Intensive, and moderated by Trans Possibilities Intensive Founder, Moi Santos, this exclusive conversation with esteemed filmmakers Zackary Drucker (The Stroll) and River Gallo (Ponyboi) reflects on the possibilities that can emerge from authentic trans storytelling.

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Moi Santos

Moderator

Moi Santos is the Manager for the Equity, Impact, and Belonging Program at Sundance Institute. In this role, Moi works across all Sundance Institute Artist Programs to deepen engagement with, and support of, storytellers and audiences across ethnicities, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, and geographic regions. She also designs, oversees, supports and executes diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. She is the Founder of the Trans Possibilities Intensive, a robust initiative which provides a supportive environment for transgender artists of color to work on their projects, sharpen their craft, develop community and challenge the obstacles that continue to exclude transgender artists of color. She holds a degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in visual culture and gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley -- where she graduated magna cum laude. more...

Zackary Drucker

Filmmaker / Artist / Producer

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMa PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries THIS IS ME, and was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show TRANSPARENT. The LADY AND THE DALE, her directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in 2021. Her follow-up project with HBO, THE STROLL, won a Peabody Award in 2024 and a Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision at Sundance 2023. Her standalone directorial feature QUEENMAKER was released on Hulu in May 2023. more...

River Gallo

River Gallo (they/them) is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist from New Jersey. River received their BFA in Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing and their MFA In Film/TV Production from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Their short film PONYBOI which they wrote, starred in, and co-directed with Sadé Clacken Joseph premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. PONYBOI the feature film, written, starring, and produced by Gallo, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition section. They were also the subject of the critically-acclaimed feature documentary EVERY BODY directed by Academy-award nominated director Julie Cohen. more...

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