Jake Graf
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UK’s PINK NEWS online celebration Pride For All
Pride For All a kaleidoscopic digital festival organized by UK’s leading queer media PINK NEWS – is back for its second year, packed with live talks, interactive events, and a virtual march. It kicks off on Tuesday (8 July) and runs until Thursday (10 July), bringing queer celebration and protest to the homes of…
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Trans filmmaker JAKE GRAF is honored with AGLIFF Breakthrough Award Screening
Brit trans filmmaker/actor/activist Jake Graf is being honoured by The All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) with a Breakthrough Award Screening that will show four of his films on September 7th 2018. For the past seven years, 40-year-old Graf has been making short films dealing with transgender issues in an effort to normalize queer and…
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Jake Graf on Cyber-Bullying within the LGBTQ Community
Brit trans filmmaker (and newly married husband) Jake Graf has always used his art to pursue his activism too, and he’s been extremely successful at it. Last year his 4-minute short HEADSPACE about the everyday traumas the trans community face went viral on YouTube and was viewed some 13-7 million times. Also from 2017 his movie DUSK which is…
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Trans Youth talk about the labels society hangs on them
In this new short film by award-winning trans filmmaker/activist Jake Graf he simply asked trans youth about the labels put on them by society. The result is a powerful message challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Like all of Graf’s work it makes an essential contribution to the continuing dialogue…
