Girl Island: The Sandy Stone Story (in post-production)

Highlights

  • Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2023-24
  • Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Grant Awardee 2024
  • Hot Docs Deal Maker, Toronto, 2024

Shuling’s Role
Director of Photography

Director/Producer
Marjorie Vecchio

Producer
Susan Stryker

Executive Producer
Zackary Drucker

Consulting Producer
Marc Smolowitz

Associate Producer
Kevin Frick

Animation Director
Bishakh Som

Co-Producer
Danielle Holke
Emily Lutzker

How does a nice, quiet Jewish boy born in New Jersey in 1936 become a sound engineer for Jimi Hendrix, a lesbian separatist, founder of Trans Studies, and the Goddess of Cyberspace?

Told through the point of view of her groundbreaking essay, The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, GIRL ISLAND tells the rollercoaster life story of Sandy Stone, America’s most modest rebel!