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The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Drop-in friendly
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 74GoodWatch 42
IMDb7.4
Running time
1 h 12 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −24 min on the typical 96
typical 9672Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries
+121Released
2018
April 16, 2018
8 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
TonganMade in
Tonga- United States
Directing · 3
- Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu Director, Producer
- Dean Hamer Director, Director of Photography
- Joe Wilson Director, Additional Camera
Production · 1
- Ilaisaane Sisi'uno Helu Producer, Translator
Camera · 2
- EZ Taufahema Additional Camera
- Ioannis Mallidas Additional Camera
Editing · 2
- Bill Weber Editor
- Gary Coates Color Grading
Sound · 3
- Joel Douek Original Music Composer
- Philip Perkins Sound Designer, Sound Mixer
- Anga Fakatonga Music Supervisor
Other crew · 37
- Doug Block Thanks
- David Weissman Thanks
- Nathan Fitch Thanks
- Ciara Lacy Thanks
- Jonathan Gann Thanks
- John Badalu Thanks
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