New version of our poster just dropped with @amnestydeutschland laurel 💐 where we won the Best Human Rights Film at @berlinale . It's not lost on us the power and symbolism of this recognition from Germany's Amnesty International during a time of immense scapegoating, big grief, and loss in our trans communities in the US, UK, and around the world. May this laurel provide a clear message to trans people out there - people are paying attention and you're not alone - and to everyone else - that we must learn from history and take community-centered approaches when imagining care-practices and futures. We are all implicated in what happens next because the question of What Will I Become? is for everyone. . . Thank you @jessxsnow for your beautiful vision for this poster and all that you do. Thank you public media !!!!!! & @filmindependent @firelight_media @workingfilms @filmfatalesorg @sundanceorg @itvsindies for carrying us this far. . . . . . . #amnestyinternational #berlinale #movieposter #t4t #humanrights

Attn cats in Europe ! Announcing our Swiss and Ukrainian premieres. Our film on mental health, new masculinities, and grief will be coming to you over the next few weeks. Please say hi if you plan to be there. . . @pinkapplefilmfestival - the largest LGBT fest in Switzerland will be having us Sunday, May 3rd at Cinema Riffraff, Zurich, at 6pm, ft a special guest 🏳️‍⚧️🩷 There will be German subtitles. . . @sunnybunnyfest - the first LGBT fest in Ukraine; day and time to be announced. There will be Ukrainian subtitles 🌻 . . Thankful to have a home in these iconic queer fests and to meet our LGBT community in new places. In the meantime, remember that our trans community healing Must include everyone and encourage you to roll through even if you're not in the LGBT umbrella. . . . #zurich #kyiv #lgbtfilm #pinkapplefilmfestival #sunnybunny

while we focus in on one statistic in our film, there are many others to learn from and arrive to with nuances around reporting and the real human lives impacted in ways numbers cannot offer. sending big <3 to anyone who also sees themselves in these stats and anyone else deeply hurting around the topic of conversion therapy.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. It's an experience we touch upon in the blanket fort of our film. In a recent interview with @eyeforfilmuk , co-director Lexie elaborates, "I arrive at this point in my life and my transition journey as an incest survivor and having a lot of abuse around me growing up. So exploring masculinity, I just was so scared of replicating the very people who hurt me or hurt other loved ones. I felt like I didn't have a lot of role models or options, so that really heavily contributed to my suicidality." . . . All this to say, we absolutely need to include survivors who are trans in this month's conversations and resourcing. It has a significant impact on our sense of future and the ways in which we are believed as survivor or as trans. Some resources and additional conversations will be offered throughout the month on this page. . . . Beauty artwork by @noahgrigni and from cover of "The Ship We Built," which deals with related themes for a middle-grade (and secretly also adult) audience, and is referenced in the opening of "What Will I Become?" . . . #SAAM #metoo #ustoo #transboy #suicideprevention

Letterboxd review roundup after our @britishfilminstitute UK premiere of What Will I Become? 📎💐 our feature documentary navigating mental health, masculinity, and trans futures. While reviews aren't everything or even The Point! - knowing we touched our audiences means the world because, at the end of the day, this is intended to be a community resource and so much care goes into a project like this. These topics can't be lonely no more!! And we can be in a room together!! . . . Post BFI and our world premiere at @berlinale , we have near 50% ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ star audience reviews and 33% ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (and a half) star and reviews, and also mad respect to people who write reviews without stars because what an impossible and complicated thing to rank. We hear so often narratives that audiences don't want to hear "sad stories" about our community, but the things da people want are nuance and care!! We want to be humanized and forcing a particular brand of joy isn't sustainable ❤️‍🩹🎵 These stars send a message. Thank you to our earliest audiences for taking a chance on us and sitting with yourselves so fully. So grateful to meet more of you soon. . . . Want to support us? Reach out about future community partnership, write a review on letterbox or star us on IMDB, tell your favorite journalists or podcasts about what we are up to, support our future festival journey, have conversations with loved ones in your life - how are they doing? How are you doing? . . . #bfiflare #berlinale #moviereviews #suicideprevention #protecttranskids . . ps Lexie shirt made by sweet T4T friend @needsaiii // hug photo by @alexdente96 // carpet photo by @millieturnercreative

In the aftermath of Trans Day of Visibility, offering advice written by one of our film's protagonists, real person and forever activist, Blake Brockington. Here, he offers advice on his Tumblr to other young trans guys who are navigating coming out. It's heartbreaking to know visibility in Blake's case and for many of us, visibility is not always safe nor a guarantee of kind witnesses or resources. It is exhausting to be a gender warrior and it is exhausting to model greatness during some of the most difficult times. You are not weak for feeling the world and its pressures - the ways you are visible and profoundly not. . . . May Blake's words and life force be a reminder we are truly not alone, that we are remembered and considered, that we have ancestors, that we have grief and plans and hard days and even bliss because we are whole people. That you are real. Please keep his words close, "You must love to see your happiness because it's out there waiting for you. This is hard. Please keep going. Live for yourself." Thank you for being here ❤️‍🩹 . . . Trans Day of Visibility may be over, but for the love of God, we love you today. . . . . #tdov #transboy #comingout #thankyouforbeing #t4t

Announcing our Asia premiere at @jeonju_iff - a highly-regarded home for indie and experimental cinema in South Korea. We will be featured in the Frontline section with several screenings throughout the festival. "True to its name, Frontline is a section that curates the issues, themes, and artistic endeavors currently confronting us on the 'front lines.' The films selected for this year share a distinct keyword: 'coexistence.' These works depict the atrocities, massacres, sacrifices, and tragedies that ensue when the inherent value of coexistence—which rightfully demands recognition—is denied or shattered." It's an honor to have our stories contribute to and build solidarity with new audiences around the world. It's an honor to channel our rage and grief and deep community love and survival into something that ripples. . . . #transformation #t4t #jeonju #lgbtfilm

Following our UK premiere - "On Monday 9th March it was announced that gender-affirming hormone treatment for transgender teenagers of the ages 16 and 17 was to be rescinded by the NHS. This comes after the blanket ban on puberty blockers for under-18s by current health secretary Wes Streeting. These examples are just two in a long line of continued systematic policy change to erase Transgender people from everyday life. A Good Law Project research has recently found that since the ban suicide amongst Trans youth has spiked. It is an extremely volatile time for Trans people to exist, meaning it is more important than ever to listen to Trans people and discover trans stories. Enter Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos, two transgender boys from America, who have made a documentary called What Will I Become? It follows both of their stories and the stories of two other Trans boys who unfortunately took their life. If there is any documentary that you need to watch at this moment it’s this one." . . . Thank you Alex and @moviemarker for supporting our work to find whoever it needs to. We are invested in continuing to share our work with our trans siblings in the UK, who face so many overlapping challenges with us in the States. May the world heal. . . . Photo from the recognition of this struggle through @programmkino.de at @berlinale #lgbtfilm #transyouth #suicideprevention #loveyou

Opening words to a public Tumblr post Blake Brockington wrote when US Rugby barred him from competing with this team. And he is no longer here today. This is nearly a decade ago and here we are in history. The debate of including trans people in sports is not an abstract concept. It is not a fun thought experiment. It is not something that happens or happened without consequence. . . . Often, trans boys are not included in trans sports debates because they are often not seen as real, ultimately labeled as women, and/or are unable to "measure up" to cis men. Highly encouraging cis people reading to engage with your peers on this - honoring trans women whose visibility comes at a cost and trans men and non-binary people whose invisibility also comes at a cost. Validating trans bans in sports is often the gateway to More discriminatory thinking (and misogyny from so many angles). . . . Blake Lee Brockington is a real person who could have been here today. Trans people of all ages who want to play sports or try (or don't!) are real people too - real people who don't have unbreakable lives or unbreakable dreams. . . . . . . #transathletes #rugby #blakebrockington #suicidepreventionawareness

There are a long list of challenges a film like ours has today because it's reflective of the challenges we have as a community today - censorship, limits to public space, assumptions about what is appropriate for young people, basic safety, etc. These early reviews mean so much to us as we build a foundation for ourselves to meet the people who may need this film most and find a home in the UK where there are so many overlapping challenges with the US. . . . More soon, in the meantime thank you @buzzfeed @cineramauk @thereviewshub @upcomingonscreen_ for your time and care ♥️ . . . . . . . #transisbeautiful #bfiflare #queerfilm #transboy #t4t