Every Body to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

This morning, Tribeca Festival announced that the Julie Cohen documentary Every Body will premiere at the New York film event this year.

The film festival will start on Wednesday, June 7 and finish on Sunday, June 18.

From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Cohen and in partnership with NBC News Studios, Every Body is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people.

The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people.

Cohen directed the project alongside producers Tommy Nguyen and Molly O'Brien and consulting producer Shana Knizhnik. Executive Producers are Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim and Andy Berg.