Framing Agnes, the winner of this year’s Sundance Film Festival‘s NEXT Audience and NEXT Innovator awards, does just what the title suggests and more. The groundbreaking film invited the Sundance audience to engage in history through the case files of trans woman Agnes, a participant in researcher Harold Garfinkel’s UCLA gender health research in the 1960s. Agnes later became known as a pioneer in the trans community for her ability to “work” the repressive system she inhabited by convincing doctors to give her the hormones she needed.

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