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Welcome to Sincast, presented by CinemaSense.

All right, everybody. Welcome to The Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense,

joined by Jonathan Watkins. Hello, hello, and Barrett Share. Hi there. We're here with

writer-director Danielle Lesovitz, who has done a movie called Port Authority. It's in theaters May

28th, and digital and on-demand June 1st. Danielle, welcome. Hello, thank you for having me.

Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for coming on. You've made a movie that focuses on the relationship between

a transgender woman and a man, and it doesn't make the, it doesn't make transgender the focus of the

movie. Getting into your sort of your the genesis of this movie and everything, did your screenwriter

brain want to make that an issue, or were you determined not to make it an issue? It's funny.

I was pretty determined from the outset to make it not an issue. I feel like, yeah, I feel like

there's more to a person of trans experience than that experience, that there's a deeper richer

humanity that I haven't felt represented on screen yet, like just the pleasure of getting to be

a person, if that makes any sense, was something that I felt was needed or necessary. So yeah, I didn't

really, I didn't want to delve into the pain of that. I feel like there are other ways of showing

showing that experience. Yeah, I mean, you certainly go, you go, I mean, it's certainly not a non-issue,

but it's not the central conflict of the movie, which I think a lot of times is what we would see.

I think even the crying game way back in 1992 tried, I don't know if it went, you know, like that,

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