Official Selection at Kashish Film Festival

What it Means To Be
Documentary Short
Dir: Lea Luiz De Oliveira 35 min / UK / English
Filmmaker Lea Luiz de Oliveira documents Callie Rose Petal who is a multidisciplinary artist-activist who uses her position in STEM to fight for trans* rights and representation. As the world’s doors close due to the pandemic and her health declines, her heart opens to the truth of her womanhood. She embarks on a journey of self-acceptance and turns to art-as-activism to inspire others. As she is about to start her medical transition, a diagnosis puts her health and her career into question, she embarks on a journey of self- acceptance and decides to use her music to inspire others.
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Credits
Director – Léa Luiz De Oliveira
Music – lonely carp
Editors – Lindsay Watson, Adam Harper
Animation – Nisan Yetkin
Cinematography – Lola Bourjac, Winifred Brook Young, Léa Luiz De Oliveira, Carlos Hernan, Magnus Huntly Grant
Sound – Keith Duncan Monika Ziska
Executive Producer – Sinead Kirwan