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Watch, listen to and read  a growing collection of press reviews of the YGMP films and interviews with filmmaker and educator Jonathan Skurnik.
Article in The Red & The Black (GA) about our YGMP screening in Athens, GA.
Article in The Athens Banner Herald (GA) about our YGMP screening in Athens, GA.
Article published by Pride Source (MI) about our PBS broadcast of Becoming Johanna.
Article published by the Pennsylvania Capital Star about our PBS broadcast of Becoming Johanna.
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.