Award-nominated “Dead Name” doc about the horrors of trans ideology

“Dead Name,” a documentary about three families upended by “transgender” ideology, received an “official selection” for the Religion Faith International Film Festival.

The film, released last year, was nominated in the “Documentary” category and passed the first stage of judging.

“Dead Name” will now go before the jury to decide what kind of awards it will receive. Awards will be announced the week of October 31st.

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“Faith and family films are becoming increasingly popular in the film industry. Many directors make films with religious and family-related themes and messages. So we created a religious film festival open to all religions to showcase and award these films. RFIFF provides opportunities for filmmakers to share their work with audiences who appreciate faith-based content,” the festival website states.

“Dead Name” is an hour-long documentary that weaves back and forth between the stories of three parents whose children struggled with gender confusion due to outside influences.

The movie description says:

“We’re learning how shocking it is for parents to hear that their children, in their mid- to late-teens, have decided out of the blue to transition from female to male or from male to female. In another story, we follow a parent’s nightmarish descent into the transgender world as her ex assigns a female gender to their very young son. In all these stories, we find parents struggling with distrust, loneliness, helplessness, isolation and despair. Ultimately, everyone’s ultimate fear is their child’s medicalized transition—though in one story, the path to medicalization would have proved fatal. “Dead Name” lets us into the inner thoughts, struggles and declarations of fighting for the children who feel lost to them. We created ‘Dead Name’ to open up the conversation, humanize the topic from a parent’s perspective, and give them a voice.”

Less than two months after the documentary was released in January 2023, Vimeo removed “Dead Name” from its platform. The film is now available for viewing at deadnamedocumentary.com, where viewers can purchase the documentary for $14.99 or rent it for $9.99.

“I was very upset to find ‘Dead Name’ being vaporized from Vimeo and without warning,” director Taylor Reece of Broken Hearted films told The Christian Post at the time. “The film took 34 days. Sales and rentals were brisk. The response has been incredible from more than 16 countries around the world. But I wasn’t 100% shocked because I’m familiar with the force that trans activists use. to silence anyone who checks or questions their dogma.”

The film also includes interviews with psychiatry professor Stephen Levine, The Christian Post opinion writer and social commentator Brandon Showalter, and parents of children caught up in transgender ideology.

The three main parents featured are Amy, whose teenage daughter began to identify as transgender and acquired testosterone from Planned Parenthood; Helen, a lesbian woman who separated from her wife who was intent on turning their young son, Jonas, into a trans girl named Rosa; and Bill, the father of a cancer-stricken son, Sean, who became convinced he was female as a freshman in college.

In a review of the film, Showalter wrote that “Dead Name” shines a light on issues that have gone largely unexamined.

“As public scrutiny continues to grow over the long-term repercussions of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and the haste with which young people with psychological problems are prescribed such drugs, the potential medical harms are finally being debated more large scale. But much less attention has been paid to the division of families that gender medicalization has produced, other than direct accounts from parents in spaces like the PITT sub and other online forums,” he wrote.

“‘Dead Name’ shatters the prevailing narrative around this highly charged topic and is an emotional call to consider the perspectives of families who know what it feels like to be on the inside of this struggle.”