WHERE WE ARE NOW: After 5+ years of work, our feature documentary is at picture lock. We’re applying to festivals, planning a far-reaching impact campaign, and preparing for our public television national broadcast.
Overall goals of the release:
- Suicide prevention and space for trans communities to process
- Education for people lacking familiarity with trans communities or conversations surrounding mental health and masculinities
- Offering nuance of trans issues for helping professionals
We’re seeking individual supporters who understand the urgency of this work and the stakes for trans communities. Funding now would allow us to activate a nation-wide impact campaign we’re building with dozens of partners like GLSEN, TransLifeline, Sound Mind Live, Brave Trails. We’re also collaborating with artists and community leaders for performances, workshops, panels, and mutual aid tied to screenings to meet people where they are and allow our film to be a resource for community, conversation, and tangible needs. With this, we need to hire PR and social media support, cover travel, bring in on-site therapists and other helping professionals, and more.
OUR TEAM: Directors Lexie Bean & Logan Rozos are trans suicide survivors who have been previously hospitalized and speak from this experience within the documentary. This film is a gift to the versions of ourselves who came out and didn't see a way forward amongst overwhelming stressors and binary constructs of masculinity.
We’re an ITVS co-production, with Executive Producers Harper Steele (Will & Harper, SNL) and Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy). We also received support from Firelight, Sundance, Film Independent. Our creative team is entirely LGBTQIA+ and/or directly impacted by suicide.
THE FILM: According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 50.8% of trans boys have attempted suicide. In WHAT WILL I BECOME?, Lexie and Logan unravel why their transmasculine community is particularly vulnerable to living and dying quietly.
We explore the stories of two young trans men who died by suicide. Soft-spoken Kyler Prescott and homecoming king Blake Brockington were both musicians, poets, and community advocates who lived very different lives. The film traces their joys and challenges, their tragic deaths and resulting media attention, and the larger aftermath within their communities. The film also uplifts trans-led resources that affirm trans boys and the community as a whole to offer a nuanced understanding of suicide-prevention.