Trans – I Got Life

Trans – I Got Life

DIRECTED BY: Doris Metz, Imogen Kimmel LAND: Germany, Russia, United States YEAR: 2021 LANGUAGE(S): German, English, Russian SUBTITLES: German RUNTIME: 95 min

SECTION: Open Eyes 2021

SYNOPSIS

Transgender/trans* people are people whose gender characteristics do not match their perceived gender, the so-called identity gender. TRANS – I GOT LIFE introduces seven different people for whom this is exactly the case. They talk openly about their personal experiences with their environment and their own identity conflicts. In addition to their personal stories, the film also sheds light on the possibilities of modern medicine through gender reassignment surgery. TRANS – I GOT LIFE impressively shows how different the paths to self-realization can be and makes it clear that gender can no longer be thought of in binary terms.

BIOGRAPHY

Doris Metz lives and works in Munich. She grew up in Oberstdorf/Allgäu. After studying Modern German Literature, Linguistics and Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a traineeship at the SZ in Bonn and Munich, she worked for ten years as an editor and author for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in the media and domestic politics section and was a reporter in the new federal states after reunification. Doris Metz has been making cinema documentaries and television films since 1998. Her focus is on socio-political subjects. Her films “Lesbos” and “Kleine Eroberer” were nominated for the Grimme Prize. With “Schattenväter”, a film about Matthias Brandt and Pierre Boom, the sons of Willy Brandt and GDR spy Günter Guillaume, she made a highly acclaimed cinema documentary in 2005. In 2017, she founded Kimmel & Metz Filmproduktion together with Imogen Kimmel. “TRANS – I got Life” is Doris Metz’s third feature film together with visual designer Sophie Maintigneux. Since 2016, Doris Metz has been a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council (deputy member) and from 2016 – 2020 she was on the Federal Board of AG DOK.

Imogen Kimmel first studied literature at the FU Berlin, then documentary film at the HFF Munich. She then completed postgraduate studies at the NSFTV, Leeds, England. There she shot the international co-production SECRET SOCIETY – CLUB OF STRONG WOMEN (feature film, writer and director), a British social comedy with sumo wrestlers from a feminist perspective. In 2011 she lived as an artist in residence in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and realized a social art project as part of the UN Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Her feature films are screened at film festivals worldwide. SECRET SOCIETY won the Audience Award at Créteil Films de Femmes, the social spot MOVE YOUR ASS won at the New York Film Festival. ALL OUT AT SEA (short film) screened in competition at the Berlinale, in Tokyo, Chicago, etc. Since 2007, she has directed numerous TV feature films and TV series. As one of the initiators of Pro Quote Regie, she campaigns for equality for female directors, teaches as a professor of directing at Macromedia in Munich and founded kimmel&metz Filmproduktion with Doris Metz in 2017.

FILMOGRAPHY
Doris Metz: Ich werde reich und glücklich (2002), Schattenväter (2005), Trans – I got Life (2021)
Imogen Kimmel: All out at sea (1995), Secret Society – Club der starken Frauen (2001), Trans – I got Life (2021)

SCRIPT: Doris Metz, Imogen Kimmel PRODCER: André Schäfer, Doris Metz, Imogen Kimmel CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sophie Maintigneux EDITOR: Frank Müller MUSIC: Gregor Schwellenbach

PRODUCTION: Florianfilm, Kimmel & Metz Filmproduktion WORLD SALES: New Docs (sales@newdocs.de) GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: mindjazz (office@mindjazz-pictures.de )