Breakout Director D. Smith, Who ‘Lost Everything’ When She Transitioned, Just Conquered Sundance

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in the Next section: the coveted audience award and Adobe’s Innovator prize. The film follows four Black trans sex workers in America and is unflinching in its depiction oft sex, identity politics and levity.

“In real life, trans women are funny. And we’re sad, and we’re sexy, and we have body parts that are our body parts. It’s time to embrace that. Enough with the fortresses that are built around us, keeping us from fully joining society,” she said. Smith said she “started to transition and lost everything” in the span of two years. “Having dear friends, close friends and strangers in New York to let me sleep at their house, it helped me a lot. I’m a true testament that if you believe in someone and you can help them, you should do it.” , chief critic Peter Debruge called the film “unforgettable,” applauding the ability of “Kokomo City” to “unpack why entrenched ideas of masculinity and gender roles make trans-ness so threatening.

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