News & Press
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Newsroom
Watch, listen to and read a growing collection of press reviews of the YGMP films and interviews with filmmaker and educator Jonathan Skurnik.
- PFLAG National screened Becoming Johanna at more than 70 PFLAG chapters around the country in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, followed by this lovely Q&A with Johanna and other special guests.
- Article published by the Kent Record Courier (Ohio) about a PFLAG screening of Becoming Johanna.
- Interview published by KCET/PBS SoCal after our June, 2020 world premiere broadcast of Becoming Johanna.
- Article from American University about filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik’s Creating Gender Inclusive Schools screening and workshop.
- Becoming Johanna reviewed in the Journal Films for the Feminist Classroom, Summer, 2019
- Jonathan presented Becoming Johanna with a panel at the 2019 EDGY Conference in Los Angeles, November 9, 2018
- Interview with director Jonathan Skurnik in The Sundial, Cal State Northridge’s Campus Newspaper, November 13, 2017
- Jonathan gave this TED style talk at the Story Movements conference at American University in Washington, D.C., about storytelling for social change, September 16, 2016
- Interview with Jonathan and Johanna on the Public Radio and Free Speech TV show Uprising with Sonali, September 30, 2016
- In the Life interview that accompanied the broadcast of the PBS LGBT news magazine’s episode about trans youth.
- Media that Matters film festival director’s interview that accompanied our Change Maker Award.
- Interview on KPFK’s Uprising Radio, June 7, 2011
- You can watch the KPFK Interview on Youtube
- Interview on Fresh Fruit Radio Show, July 8, 2010
- Washington City Paper film review, June 18, 2010
- Washington Edge film review, June 18, 2010
Press Kits
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