Sam Feder  

Sam Feder has created several award-winning documentaries that center the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and conflict within the queer and trans community. Sam seeks to connect transgender struggles and liberation to the context of the present and legacy of the past by showing that our communal history makes our present lives possible. Sam's second feature "Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger" was named one of the best LGBT documentaries of 2014 by The Advocate, and cited by IndieWire as one of the must-see films of the 2014. Sam'c cureent film Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen (Executive Producer Laverne Cox) will be out early 2020, Sam has been awarded the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, multiple international best feature film awards and residencies including The Jerome Foundation, Frameline Completion Fund, Astraea Foundation for Social Justice, The MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo Artist Residency. For more, visit www.samfeder.com. (07/19)