Watch at Home: ‘The Most Dangerous Year’ & more from female filmmakers

FF2 Media’s new “Watch at Home” columns list the new films written and/or directed by women filmmakers that are newly available each week on DVD, Video On Demand &/or streaming services.
Here are the new films written and/or directed by women filmmakers now available at home as of 1/25/2019 (with links to FF2 Media reviews posted the week of their theatrical release):

  • After – Jenny Gage (director), Susan McMartin (writer)
  • Alita: Battle Angel – Laeta Kalogridis (co-writer)
  • Darlin’ – Pollyanna McIntosh (director/writer)
  • Little – Tina Gordon (director/co-writer), Tracy Oliver (co-writer)
  • The Most Dangerous Year – Vlada Knowlton (director)
  • Saving Zoë – LeeAnne H. Adams (co-writer)

DANIELLE’S TOP PICK OF THE WEEK

This week’s selection is The Most Dangerous YearThe Most Dangerous Year is an important documentary with a focus on families fighting against anti-transgender rights legislation.
This documentary is personal for director Vlada Knowlton.  Her youngest daughter was five years old upon coming out but started showing signs of being transgender two years earlier.  The director comments in the film that “it was a terrifying time for us.”  Struggling to accept their child’s gender identity was one thing but the next year proved to be even worse.
Not to get personal but HB2 in North Carolina forced me to come out on Facebook because it was the only place at the time where I could truly be myself.  You have to wonder what truly goes through the minds of people signing these ballot initiatives.  Do they ever stop to think about the harm they cause to someone that they’ve never met?
Capturing the perspective from families with transgender children, The Most Dangerous Year is a compelling documentary showing that transgender rights matter.
Please click HERE for my full review.
© Danielle Solzman (02/15/19) FF2 Media
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Danielle Solzman is a Chicago-based film critic and an aspiring filmmaker if she can ever put enough time aside to work on her feature-length trans-led political comedy script. When not in Chicago, she attends various film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Toronto. She graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a BA in Public Relations while earning a Masters in Media Communications from Webster University after writing a thesis paper on comic books against the backdrop of the American political culture.
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