Danielle Lessovitz
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Danielle Lessovitz is an American filmmaker known for Port Authority (2019), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and told the story of a young white man who falls for a transgender woman in New York's ballroom community — a film praised for its sensitive and unsentimental portrayal of trans life and interracial desire. Lessovitz identifies as a queer woman and has spoken about the importance of authentic representation for trans and queer stories in independent cinema, describing her own gender identity as "quite genderless."
