Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
Unfortunately the movie Born to Be is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Sound | Eliott Taylor | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Directing | Tania Cypriano | Director |
| Production | Michelle Koo Hayashi | Producer |
| Production | Molly M. Fowler | Executive Producer |
| Production | J. Winkelried | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jessica Kingdon | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Mattison Thor Carter | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Scott K. Foley | Editor |
| Sound | Troy Herion | Music |
| Crew | Ilyse Wolfe Tretter | Clearances Coordinator |
| Camera | Jeffrey Johnson | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Christopher White | Editor |
| Production | Heidi Reinberg | Consulting Producer |
| Production | Rachel Mills | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Brad Wickham | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Susan Norget | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | James Carroll | Visual Effects Designer |
