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[Watch the trailer &/or view full credit listings]
Director: Sam Feder
Fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the struggle for trans rights. With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice.
“Critic’s pick!” —IndieWire, Variety
“Hard-hitting documentary!” —Adrian Horton, The Guardian
“As if in a stern rebuke to the ‘just asking questions’ crowd, who reduce people’s lives to intellectual exercises, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY interweaves thought and feeling simultaneously.” —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
“In Feder’s 2020 documentary DISCLOSURE — a film that should be required viewing for all those working in entertainment — the filmmaker tracks the evolution of how trans life is represented on screen, from harmful portrayals in movies like THE CRYING GAME to more rounded depictions in the FX series POSE. With HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY — which also includes trans actress and activist Laverne Cox as an executive producer and on-screen contributor as she was with DISCLOSURE — Feder forms another compelling argument against trans bias, albeit one that’s immediacy proves far more dire.” – Harrison Richlin, IndieWire
[Watch the trailer &/or view full credit listings]
Director: Sam Feder
Fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the struggle for trans rights. With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice.
“Critic’s pick!” —IndieWire, Variety
“Hard-hitting documentary!” —Adrian Horton, The Guardian
“As if in a stern rebuke to the ‘just asking questions’ crowd, who reduce people’s lives to intellectual exercises, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY interweaves thought and feeling simultaneously.” —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
“In Feder’s 2020 documentary DISCLOSURE — a film that should be required viewing for all those working in entertainment — the filmmaker tracks the evolution of how trans life is represented on screen, from harmful portrayals in movies like THE CRYING GAME to more rounded depictions in the FX series POSE. With HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY — which also includes trans actress and activist Laverne Cox as an executive producer and on-screen contributor as she was with DISCLOSURE — Feder forms another compelling argument against trans bias, albeit one that’s immediacy proves far more dire.” – Harrison Richlin, IndieWire
