Brit Fryer is a 23-year-old black trans filmmaker with ambitious goals. "I want to be one of the main voices in telling new trans stories," he told BuzzFeed News.
Fryer is getting a head start by attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, going on now. He's getting to know industry professionals and see a bunch of films as part of the Sundance Ignite program for young filmmakers.
Fryer was invited to Sundance as an Ignite Fellow on the strength of his film Trans-ience, an experimental short he shot as a senior in Carleton College, which explores his experience as an early-transitioning trans man.
In the film, Fryer intersperses footage from his daily life with a phone call from his mom describing some of the things he used to say as a kid.
Using voiceover in the form of spoken poetry, Fryer describes his hopes for the future...
... and questions how trans narratives are usually told.
