Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2005 • 57 minutes
Spit It Out is a funny and poignant portrait of Jeff Shames' successful efforts to come to terms with his stutter and his family's legacy of denial.
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I'm Just Anneke (The Youth and Gender...
Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2010 • 11 minutes
Anneke is 12. She loves ice hockey and is a hardcore tomboy. Everybody who meets her assumes she's a boy, but she's not sure if she wants to be a girl, a boy, or something in-between when she grows up.
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Becoming Johanna (The Youth and Gende...
Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2016 • 27 minutes
When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.
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A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Kathy Leichter • Documentary • 2001 • 58 minutes
A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation.
