About Ray Trailer

Ray is, in many ways, a regular New York teenager who enjoys skating, goes to school and is being raised by a single mother. The only unusual thing about him is that he was born female. Now he's hit puberty, he wants to under-go hormone replacement therapy and his mother Maggie is behind him one-hundred per cent. She may be grieving for the daughter that she's lost, but all she wants is for Ray to be happy and feel whole. The news that Ray wants to become a boy doesn't sit well with everyone, however. Her lesbian grandmother Dolly, for example, with whom he and his mother lives is dismissive of the idea of transitioning, and when the time comes to sign the parental consent form from the doctor, Maggie struggles to get her estranged husband to agree too. Ray isn't backing down without a fight; he refuses to go to school until he can start afresh in a boyish body, having undergone years of bullying. But it's going to take some serious discussion for him to be accepted for he is by the people around him.

'About Ray' is a moving story about a teenager's transitional journey from female to male. Directed by Gaby Dellal ('Angels Crest', 'On a Clear Day', 'The Ride') who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Nikole Beckwith ('Stockholm, Pennsylvania'), the story follows the trials and tribulations of being trans-gender in a direction often forgotten. It is set to be released in US theaters on September 18th 2015.