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- Title
- Loading Docs 2016 - Same But Different
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- NZ On Screen
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"How would your relationship with your best friend change if they were to change gender?" This is the intriguing proposition that led director Louise Leitch to make this 2016 Loading Doc. Best friends Neil (Leitch's husband) and Byron have been longtime climbing companions, but Byron’s shift from a male to female gender identity at 50 years old provides a challenge to their mateship that differs from any mountaineering obstacle. The mini documentary screened on SBS in Australia. The Spinoff’s...
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- Video
- Date created
- 2016
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/loading-docs-same-but-different-2016
- Related subjects
- friendship / hawdon valley / transgender / identity / gender / climbing / mountaineering / byron skinner / tramping / masculinity / nz on air / nz film commission / new zealand on air / new zealand film commission
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