The Day I Decided to Be Nina

Director: Ingeborg Jansen

Country: The Netherlands

Year of production: 2000

Duration: 15 min

Subject:

Children's rights
LGBT rights
Minority rights

Audience:

Teachers
Pupils
Students

Guido is 11 years old boy who doesn’t want to be a boy. He doesn’t like football and prefers chatting to the girls in his class. In fact, he also feels more like a girl. And then the day comes when Guido decides to be Nina. The only thing missing is for her friends and family how to accept her wishes.

director

Ingeborg Jansen

Ingeborg Jansen (Amsterdam, 1965) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1991 (documentary filmmaking and editing) and from Erasmus University of Rotterdam in 2010 (Criminal Law). She`s been an independent documentary filmmaker since 1991 and has, amongst other things, been working on VPRO`s series Veldpost, Sportpaleis de Jong and Ondertussen in Nederland.