Jeanne d'Trans (2016) watch online HD

The candid adventures of a straight filmmaker in world of transvestites, trans-genders and other gender minorities. Documentary explores our traditional gender roles through the experiences of people who challenge them all. Interviews include various Burlesque - artists, female pastor and Europe's only transsexual pro-wrestler who body-slams traditional gender roles in a profession, where the norms of gender are narrowly defined.

This documentary was picked up for a world-wide distribution by IndieFlix in 2017.

The original idea for this documentary came from Monica Heinonen, who is one of the leading characters in the documentary. Director Niko Kostet is a personal friend of Monica and first declined to do this documentary. Later, Niko was very flattered by the authenticity and genuineness of Monica and her transgender friends and decided to direct, produce and write the entire documentary.

Filming locations included Turku Pride 2015.

During the filming of this documentary, Jessica Love was known as the only European trans-gender pro-wrestler. She also appeared in another documentary the same year called Spandex Sapiens. She had a very successful run in European and Japanese wrestling promotions. Only in Sweden, she was allowed to wrestle against women.

The Finnish premiere date was set before the documentary went in to production.

This documentary was picked up for educational purposes by Docademia.