Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Familiar Places
  • Assembly
  • Mid-Century Modern
  • My Boyfriend the Fascist
  • All for One
  • Accidental Friends
  • My Boyfriend Is a Sex Worker
  • Museum of the Night
  • Nina & Emma
  • Residence (The)
  • ¡Quba!
  • Cherri
  • Lilies Not for Me
  • She's the He
  • Newborn
  • Klandestin WT
  • Compatriots (The)
  • Things Like This
  • Union Station
  • Spirit Riser
  • Groomsmen: Second Chances (The)
  • Heart Killers (The)
  • Brother Orange
  • Legacy of Cloudy Falls (The)
  • Migliore dei Mali (Il)
  • Chlorophyll
  • Country Queer
  • Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction
  • Belgravia: The Next Chapter
  • American Rust
  • Molt lluny
  • Last Gasp the Gospel of Damion
  • Engarradiella
  • Severance
  • GEN_
  • Déposition (La)
  • Arthur's Whisky
  • Unreasonables – Aids activism in Frankfurt (The)
  • My Chest Is Full of Sparks
  • Row of Life

Ties That Bind (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 24 mins

  • Director: Diana Newton
  • Writer: Diana Newton
  • Producer: Diana Newton; Erica Rothman

CGiii Comment

It's a trans*story just like all the others...

And...not every trans*story is interesting...however, when Diana Newton said that she needed a witness to her story - that witness turned out to be her camera...that's when the 'off' button was pressed!


Trailer...here

The(ir) Blurb...

Over twelve years ago, filmmaker Diana Newton’s former brother, Christopher, came out to her as transgender. Suddenly she had a sister, Christine. But would it prove to be a tipping point or a breaking point for their family? Just how strong or fragile would their family ties prove to be?

With these questions in mind, Newton decided then to document her family’s journey of shock and loss, conflict and adaptation to Christine’s transition over time. The resulting story is The Ties That Bind, an hour-long documentary film that reveals our inability to get the pronouns right any more; of being afraid—not only of the truth about Christine, but about ourselves, our beliefs and biases. It is also a revelation about how our family members’ responses to her change also proved surprising, in the best and worst ways.