Finding Bobbi: A Search for Self

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UPC: 680044984025

Synopsis

Finding Bobbi tells the story of actor Bobbi Charlton’s long, courageous journey through gender dysphoria. After half a life in the wrong body, Bobbi transitioned at the age of 53. This transgender woman’s incredible story is funny, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming. It chronicles her experiences as a child, adolescent and adult struggling to understand and express who she really was at a time when there was no real acceptance of transgender people in mainstream culture. The film follows her return to the stage after a 23-year absence, playing Aunt Eller in a gender-bending production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

QUOTABLE QUOTES

She is a wholly engaged, self-aware and generous human being. It’s hard for me to imagine what that journey has been and what the last several years have been for her in coming to this place. But I can’t imagine that those weren’t qualities that she’s always exhibited as someone who has a real deep sense of who they are in their soul.
– Michael Sharon, Actor “Jud” in the OSF production of Oklahoma

I think it’s a powerful story to show these characters living their true selves, unapologetically. And the ultimate message is love and fighting for love. Even though we love differently from each other, or look different from each other, or express ourselves differently from each other.
–Tatiana Wechsler, Actor “Curly” in the OSF production of Oklahoma

It shouldn’t matter what gender I am, what orientation I am. It shouldn’t matter what belief system I have. So long as my belief is love and acceptance, then what more do you need to know about me.
– Bobbi Charlton, Actor

Credits

Directed by Scot Morison

Produced by Ava Karvonen 

67 minutes  | 2019 | English language with English SDH subtitles