Over the past few years, as attitudes to trans people have changed around the world, more and more people have felt able to open up and, where appropriate, seek medical support. There's a downside to this for those seeking treatment, however: waiting lists are getting longer and longer. In the UK, it can take three years just to get a first appointment with a consultant. In 2016, an amendment to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prevented health insurers from specifically excluding these treatments and demand shot up, but there were still far too few doctors available with the skills and inclination to help. This film follows Dr Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon who stepped up to fill the gap, looking not only at the physical and social changes he has made possible for his patients but also at the way the experience has changed him.
Why are there so...
Why are there so...
- 1/6/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
30 Years of The Film Foundation
Equally impressive as his towering career is Martin Scorsese’s dedication to restoring previously lost classics and championing underseen gems with The Film Foundation. Now celebrating 30 years, they’ve been given the spotlight on The Criterion Channel, featuring a wealth of highlights as well as a conversation between Scorsese and Ari Aster. The lineup of essentials includes The Broken Butterfly (1919), Trouble in Paradise (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), L’Atalante (1934), The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Chase (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), The River (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Bigamist (1953), Ugetsu (1953), Senso (1954), The Big Country (1958), Shadows (1959), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Primary (1960), The Connection (1961), Salvatore Giuliano (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Once Upon a Time in the West...
30 Years of The Film Foundation
Equally impressive as his towering career is Martin Scorsese’s dedication to restoring previously lost classics and championing underseen gems with The Film Foundation. Now celebrating 30 years, they’ve been given the spotlight on The Criterion Channel, featuring a wealth of highlights as well as a conversation between Scorsese and Ari Aster. The lineup of essentials includes The Broken Butterfly (1919), Trouble in Paradise (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), L’Atalante (1934), The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Chase (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), The River (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Bigamist (1953), Ugetsu (1953), Senso (1954), The Big Country (1958), Shadows (1959), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Primary (1960), The Connection (1961), Salvatore Giuliano (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Once Upon a Time in the West...
- 11/20/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"I'm very, very grateful to have you here today." Kino Lorber has revealed the official trailer for an award-winning documentary film titled Born to Be, which first premiered at last year's New York Film Festival, and also played at the Hamptons, Palm Springs, and (where it won the Grand Jury Prize) Nashville Film Festivals. Tania Cypriano's doc Born to Be follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery located in New York City – where, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. With extraordinary access, this feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor's work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming surgeon led to her own transformation. An important & impactful story to tell.
- 11/3/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Not every patient wants to have a surgical transition. Transition can take many forms,” says Dr. Jess Ting in the trailer for “Born to Be,” a poignant and finely tuned documentary about his work as head surgeon at Mt. Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Ting’s sensitive approach to the transgender population is just one reason he makes such a satisfying documentary subject — his sense of humor and background as a Juilliard-trained classical musician does the rest. Taking a page out of his book, filmmaker Tania Cypriano treats her tireless subject with utmost sensitivity. The film made its world premiere at the 2019 New York Film Festival, and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber earlier this month. IndieWire is debuting the trailer exclusively below.
From IndieWire’s B+ review out of NYFF last year: “‘Born to Be’ follows Dr. Ting as he makes his daily rounds,...
From IndieWire’s B+ review out of NYFF last year: “‘Born to Be’ follows Dr. Ting as he makes his daily rounds,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Born To Be,” Tania Cypriano’s critically acclaimed documentary which world premiered at the New York Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning to release the documentary in virtual and physical cinemas on Nov. 18, followed by a roll-out on KinoNow.com and home video.
“Born to Be” follows Dr. Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Through his pioneering work, Ting is giving transgender and non-binary people access for the first time ever to quality transition-related health and surgical care.
In the documentary, Cypriano tells the story of Ting, a Juilliard-trained bass player-turned-surgeon and that of his patients, who come to him from all walks of life and whose diversity reflects the multiplicity of communities that make up New York.
“Born to Be” explores the complexities of gender, as well as...
Kino Lorber is planning to release the documentary in virtual and physical cinemas on Nov. 18, followed by a roll-out on KinoNow.com and home video.
“Born to Be” follows Dr. Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Through his pioneering work, Ting is giving transgender and non-binary people access for the first time ever to quality transition-related health and surgical care.
In the documentary, Cypriano tells the story of Ting, a Juilliard-trained bass player-turned-surgeon and that of his patients, who come to him from all walks of life and whose diversity reflects the multiplicity of communities that make up New York.
“Born to Be” explores the complexities of gender, as well as...
- 10/2/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After highlighting the most overlooked films of 2019 with our 50 favorite movies that made less than $100K at the U.S. box office, today we’re putting a spotlight on the truly overlooked: the 30 films (and honorable mentions) that we loved on the festival circuit that are still seeking U.S. distribution.
Acting also as a 2020 preview, we hope that highlighting these titles spurs some distributor interests and a release in the next twelve months. Featuring favorites from Berlinale, Cannes, Locarno, Tiff, Nyff, and beyond, make sure to follow us on Twitter to get the latest distribution updates. As we move into a new decade, one can also track all of our festival coverage here.
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
For his debut feature, writer-director-cinematographer Mark Jenkin takes a parable about a contemporary fishing community under threat from wealthy outsiders and presents it in a style reminiscent of documentaries of the early 20th century,...
Acting also as a 2020 preview, we hope that highlighting these titles spurs some distributor interests and a release in the next twelve months. Featuring favorites from Berlinale, Cannes, Locarno, Tiff, Nyff, and beyond, make sure to follow us on Twitter to get the latest distribution updates. As we move into a new decade, one can also track all of our festival coverage here.
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
For his debut feature, writer-director-cinematographer Mark Jenkin takes a parable about a contemporary fishing community under threat from wealthy outsiders and presents it in a style reminiscent of documentaries of the early 20th century,...
- 1/6/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
How does a self-taught upright bass player who dropped out of Julliard to pursue his parents’ dream of medical school become a bona fide superhero? Easy. He raised his hand. Dr. Jess Ting may have graduated at the top of his class and found success as a New York City plastic surgeon, but none of that compares to the courage and humanity shown when agreeing to lead the newly-formed Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. The position was created in 2015 as a response to state requirements declaring that all health insurance plans must now cover gender-affirming surgery and everyone else said, “No.” More than that, they wondered why Ting said, “Yes.” Think about that. They couldn’t understand why he wanted to help people.
If they haven’t figured it out yet, documentarian Tania Cypriano’s film Born to Be should enlighten them. She follows Ting...
If they haven’t figured it out yet, documentarian Tania Cypriano’s film Born to Be should enlighten them. She follows Ting...
- 10/5/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
“Not every patient wants to have a surgical transition. Transition can take many forms,” says Dr. Jess Ting in an early interview in “Born to Be,” a poignant and finely tuned documentary about his work as head surgeon at Mt. Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Ting’s thoughtful, measured, and sensitive approach to the transgender population are just part of what make him such a satisfying documentary subject. (His sense of humor and background as a Juilliard-trained classical musician does the rest.) Dr. Ting brings a level of care and humanity to his work that is, unfortunately, not always the norm for the community he serves. Taking a page out of his book,
“Born to Be” follows Dr. Ting as makes does his daily rounds, consulting patients on everything from top surgery, facial feminization, vaginoplasty, and phalloplasty. While trans audiences may — and rightly so — be wary of...
“Born to Be” follows Dr. Ting as makes does his daily rounds, consulting patients on everything from top surgery, facial feminization, vaginoplasty, and phalloplasty. While trans audiences may — and rightly so — be wary of...
- 10/4/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In “Born to Be,” Tania Cypriano’s moving and fascinatingly forward-looking documentary about the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, we meet a handful of eager, at times desperate folks who are engaged in the existential medical conundrum of doing everything they can to become the people they are.
One of them, Mahogany Phillips, is getting surgery to reduce the downward-sloping masculine curve of her forehead. The physician who’s working with her, Dr. Jess Ting, explains that he’s going to drastically cut back the bone — which may give you a queasy shudder, since the bone he’s talking about encases that thing called the brain. This is no mere rhinoplasty or cheek implant; the procedure sounds drastic. But then the surgery happens, quite successfully, and we see what Mahogany looks like afterwards, the reduced size and slope of her forehead appearing as...
One of them, Mahogany Phillips, is getting surgery to reduce the downward-sloping masculine curve of her forehead. The physician who’s working with her, Dr. Jess Ting, explains that he’s going to drastically cut back the bone — which may give you a queasy shudder, since the bone he’s talking about encases that thing called the brain. This is no mere rhinoplasty or cheek implant; the procedure sounds drastic. But then the surgery happens, quite successfully, and we see what Mahogany looks like afterwards, the reduced size and slope of her forehead appearing as...
- 10/3/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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