Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
Cast
Crew
Tania Cypriano
Director
Scott K. Foley
Editor
Christopher White
Editor
Mattison Thor Carter
Assistant Editor
Jeffrey Johnson
Director of Photography
Molly M. Fowler
Executive Producer
J. Winkelried
Executive Producer
Susan Norget
Executive Producer
Michelle Koo Hayashi
Producer
Jessica Kingdon
Co-Producer
Rachel Mills
Co-Producer
Eliott Taylor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Brad Wickham
Sound Mixer
James Carroll
Visual Effects Designer
Troy Herion
Music
Heidi Reinberg
Consulting Producer
Ilyse Wolfe Tretter
Clearances Coordinator
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