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, documentary makers Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlowe had no idea it would take six years to complete. But the film traces a relationship in which one partner transitions gender, and Elliott says that process can take a long time – potentially a lifetime., which was named winner of the major Australian Writers’ Guild Award on Thursday night, tells the story of Perth-based couple Elloise Walsh, the transgender protagonist, known as Elle, and her partner, Lauren Black.
And it was this access that allowed Elliott and Marlowe to honestly depict a story which wasn’t frequently being told. Back in 2014, when the 31-year-old documentary makers started filming, Caitlyn Jenner was the most public advocate for the trans community. There was so little information available about what it was like to be trans, let alone to transition, says Marlowe.“A large part was that we wanted to know Elle’s story, and we wanted there to be visibility,” she says.
The film was also created so that people outside the LGBTQ community could understand what being trans might look like: “We wanted to tell this as a love story. Putting [forward] those universal themes was a really good way to make the wider community have a human connection.”
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