Disclosure

Disclosure (2020) is Sam Feder's documentary, available to watch online on iFILM. It traces how Hollywood has portrayed transgender people for nearly a century — and what those screen images did to real lives off camera.

The people talking here are trans themselves: actors, directors and scholars, among them Laverne Cox (who also produced), Jen Richards and historian Susan Stryker. They revisit dozens of movies and shows, from the silent era to recent television, unpacking how the camera kept casting them as the punchline, the villain or the corpse. Clips and close readings sit alongside frank personal memory.

Released on Netflix, the film became a real talking point about representation — less a lecture than an inside view of how the industry shapes the way audiences see, and how trans viewers learned to see themselves. Worth a look for anyone who treats cinema as a mirror of its society. Stream Disclosure (2020) online on iFILM.