SEAHORSE: THE DAD WHO GAVE BIRTH
Feature documentary
www.seahorsefilm.com

One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfill an age-old desire: starting his own family. This is the story of the dad who gave birth.

Best Documentary nomination
BIFA 2019

“Unforgettable” Award: Freddy McConnell
Cinema Eye Honours 2020

Tribeca Film Festival (World Premiere)
Hot Docs Documentary Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest (European Premiere)
Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Festival
Doxa Documentary FF, Vancouver
QDoc Film Festival, Portland
Doc Edge Festival, New Zealand
Melbourne Intl Film Festival

Directed by Jeanie Finlay
BBC Storyville for BBC2
A Grain Media Production
In Association with Glimmer Films & The Guardian
Development supported by Wellcome Trust

International Sales: Submarine
info@submarine.com

OUT IN UK CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 2019

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - The Guardian
“a moving study of a man who gave birth … always feels intimately personal, he’s one of us and one of a kind.” (Charles Bramesco)

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - Financial Times
“An astonishing, unmissable story…. Unexpected is the sheer breadth of insight bound up with his experience - the fragility of romantic relationships; the psychic connection of all pregnancies to parents a generation back. McConnell is never less than self-aware - once expecting he remarks that if all men could experience morning sickness the world would never hear the end of it - a complaint made while being , and doing just that.” (Danny Leigh)

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - Now Toronto
”Finlay treats her remarkable subject in the way that we hope other pregnant trans men will one day be regarded: as ordinary.”

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - Little White Lies
”Finlay’s film feels like a quiet but powerful step towards a more understanding society, in which individuals are not only granted autonomy over their own bodies and reproductive rights but find acceptance too.”

“One of the most moving things I have ever witnessed. I am forever changed”. - Portland Observer

“An engaging, empathetic and affecting film from master documentarian Jeanie Finlay” - Mark Kermode

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - The Scotsman
”a fascinating and clear-eyed look at the positive ways people can make a difference by being true to themselves”

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - The Reviews Hub “dignified and ultimately inspirational”

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - Film Era “powerful documentary of trans parenthood”

“an intimate and revealing interrogation of masculinity and gender… [an] emotional, (extra)ordinary journey to start a family” - OUT magazine

"Pushes at all assumptions about family, love, and the body. See it! You will cry!" Jennie Livingstone – Director of Paris is Burning

“A tender – and rather wonderful – documentary about love, family, fallouts, raging hormones and the complexities of identity” - Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - The Telegraph “an unflinchingly honest film that doesn't sugarcoat its subject”

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - TV Times

“A moving account of love and family” - Pink News

“A brilliant story of intimate companionship and fatherhood” - Screen Queens