How ‘Every Body’ Director Took Inspiration from ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ for Documentary’s Finale

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Tribeca Film Festival, is a sensitive, empathetic look at intersex peoples. Similar to how the doc showcases the extraordinary lives of its subjects, the path to getting it made also came from a unique place. “I used to be a ‘Dateline’ producer many, many years ago,” Cohen told TheWrap. “In 2018, they asked me to come back there for a stint.

I’m doing development work, looking through their archives, looking for stories that might make jumping off points for documentaries.” She stumbled upon the case of David Reimer, a man who was injured as an infant and was, through a series of bizarre events, raised as a girl by his family at the encouragement of the medical community.

It led Cohen to wonder how much the world at large knew about the intersex community. “Even people that are pretty plugged in on LGBT issues generally just don’t know enough about intersex beyond having seen it.

Seeing that it’s that letter [I] that’s somewhere in [LGBTQIA],” she said. The rest came fairly organically, with Cohen connecting with intersex activist Alicia Weigel, which led her to Sean Saifa Wall and River Gallo.But what trajectory to take with the documentary?