Elliot Page Joins New Doc Highlighting Trans Lives: “I’ve Never Seen Another Film Like It”

Elliot Web page has signed on as govt producer of an Italian documentary titled Nel Mio Nome (Into My Title), which is ready for a 2022 Berlin Movie Competition premiere. It follows the lives of 4 buddies, Nico, Leo, Andrea, and Raff, who’re transitioning from feminine to male whereas struggling to navigate a binary world. The movie is impressed by director Nicolò Bassetti’s transgender son, Matteo.

“What stands out to me about Nel Mio Nome is the best way it so artfully and deliberately presents all of the completely different items that make up an individual’s identification,” Web page advised The Hollywood Reporter in regards to the upcoming documentary. “It is a meditation on trans humanity, and I’ve by no means seen one other movie prefer it.”

He continued: “Understanding that Bassetti consulted carefully along with his trans son all through manufacturing is so lovely to me, and I feel that lived expertise and enter is obvious within the movie’s perspective. I am honored to be on board and may’t wait for everybody to see it.”

In December 2020, Web page publicly got here out transgender through a transferring assertion posted on his Instagram and Twitter accounts. “Hello buddies, I wish to share with you that I’m trans, my pronouns are he/they and my identify is Elliot. I really feel fortunate to be penning this. To be right here. To have arrived at this place in my life,” he wrote on the time earlier than thanking his hundreds of thousands of followers for his or her help. A pair months later, Web page develop into the primary transgender man to grace the quilt of Time journal.