Silas Howard

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being...

Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way,...

A comic morality tale about two cocky young lesbians who bite off more than they can chew at a Texas roadside diner.

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the...

A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's...

In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

Documentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on queer punk groups. Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires,...

Gender specific restroom spaces are challenging places for gender non-normative people and single parents! This film not only takes a candid look at...

A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends.

A college student musters the courage to come out to her mother, with the support of her musically inclined friends.

"The Golden Age of Hustlers" captures the 1970's gay hustler scenes of pre-HIV/AIDS era on Polk St in San Francisco from an insider's experience.

Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way,...

Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way,...

At 83, Madelynn Von Ritz is doing what she loves, making music. This is a film about hard luck, perseverance, loss and hope. About almosts and nevers...

A Yoruba & Igbo and Filipinx transgender couple nest a pregnancy in their love and give light to possibilities outside of a binary world.

Bambi Lake, a notorious San Francisco transgender performer and entertainer, takes us on a stroll down Polk Street, sharing anecdotes and the history...

After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high...

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his...

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of...

Seven transgender and gender nonconforming individuals share their unique experiences with Silas Howard.

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of...

A dark comedy about two people's chase around Los Angeles to find a missing cooler.

A transgender teen is sent to a science-based conversion camp by his family and quickly learns that the youth there are being converted into...

Bambi Lake, a notorious San Francisco transgender performer and entertainer, takes us on a stroll down Polk Street, sharing anecdotes and the history...

Bambi Lake, a notorious San Francisco transgender performer and entertainer, takes us on a stroll down Polk Street, sharing anecdotes and the history...