Transformer (film)

Not to be confused with Transformers (film) or The Transformers: The Movie.

Transformer is a 2017 Canadian documentary film directed by Michael Del Monte, featuring competitive bodybuilder Janae Kroc coping with both the physical and social processes of gender transition after coming out as a trans woman.^[1][2]

Transformer
Directed by	Michael Del Monte
Written by	Michael Del Monte Samuel Fussell
Produced by	Tad Munnings
Starring	Janae Kroc
Cinematography	Brian Hunt
Edited by	Graham Withers
Music by	Gilad Carroll
Production company	Storystream Creative
Distributed by	Documentary Channel Gravitas Ventures
Release date	October 28, 2017 (2017-10-28) (Austin)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Release and awards

The film premiered at the 2017 Austin Film Festival, where it won the audience prize and feature documentary award.^[3][4] It subsequently screened at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won both Audience Award categories, the juried award for best Canadian documentary and the emerging Canadian filmmaker award,^[5] then at the 2018 Queer North Film Festival, where it won the audience award for best transgender film.^[6]

The film was distributed in Canada primarily as a television film on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Documentary Channel, with international theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures.^[4]

Graham Withers received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.^[7]