Zackary Drucker

Directing

Zackary Drucker

Born 1983-01-01 · Syracuse, New York, USA

Zackary Drucker (born 1983) is an American multimedia artist, cultural producer, LGBT activist, actress, television producer, and a trans woman. She is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docu-series This Is Me, and a consultant on the TV series Transparent.

Acting credits

Disclosure poster
7.8

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Disclosure

2020

Unison poster
NR

With its non-linear structure, Zackary Drucker’s dreamlike Unison imagines phases of an always evolving trans identity existing simultaneously over an idyllic afternoon.

Unison

No Ordinary Man poster
4.0

The legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to life by a diverse group of contemporary trans artists.

No Ordinary Man

2021

Framing Agnes poster
NR

In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.

Framing Agnes

2019

Framing Agnes poster
5.8

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access.

Framing Agnes

2022

Lady Los Angeles poster
NR

A young Latinx trans woman skateboards through Los Angeles trying to make her rent.

Lady Los Angeles

2023

Southern for Pussy poster
NR

Over a long weekend, a mother and daughter discuss thinning vaginal walls and humiliate a handsome stranger.

Southern for Pussy

2015

At Least You Know You Exist poster
NR

Amongst a trove of treasures, iconic drag performer Flawless Sabrina and Zackary Drucker ruminate on gender, drag, and resistance.

At Least You Know You Exist

2011

No artwork available
NR

While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.

She Gone Rogue

2012

Stonewall Forever poster
NR

The history of the Stonewall Riots is equally as cherished as it is charged. There are questions of who was there, who "threw the first brick" and who can claim Stonewall. This film doesn’t answer these questions but instead it aims to expand the story of Stonewall by including more voices in its telling by bringing together voices from over 50 years of LGBTQ activism to explore the ongoing legacy of Stonewall.

Stonewall Forever

2019

No artwork available
NR

Two trans women share moments of love, insult, and masochism, exchanging both kiki and kai kai languages. Their syncopated exchanges oscillate from hateful to loving, blurring the distinction between lover and enemy - a position that both women seem to share.

You Will Never Ever Be a Woman. You Must Live the Rest of Your Days Entirely as a Man, and You Will Only Grow More Masculine with Each Passing Year. There Is No Way Out.

2008

Behind the camera

Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl poster
4.5

This documenary reveals the story behind the now-defunct "Park Avenue Peerage" blog. In the height of heiress-era NYC, an anonymous blogger infiltrated Manhattan's elite, bringing socialite celebrity to new heights, according to the doc’s logline. When the website's creator was unmasked, the mastermind was not who anybody expected.

Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl

2023

Biosphere poster
5.1

In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.

Biosphere

2023

Enigma poster
6.2

Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.

Enigma

2025

First They Came for My College poster
NR

When the Governor of Florida transforms a beloved public honors college in a political coup, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in a growing nation-wide assault on academic freedom.

First They Came for My College

2026

Mones poster
NR

Cici, a trans woman, confronts her gender dysphoria at her younger brother Teddy’s fraternity during a historic Pride party/drag show she put together with her best friends. As the drag performers, frat boys, and queers mingle, Cici has a romantic encounter with a familiar young man that leads to her overcoming her mental hurdles around being a woman. Ultimately, she learns the universal truth of womanhood… sometimes your titties just hurt! A high energy comedy that explores questions of identity.

Mones

2026

The Stroll poster
6.5

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

The Stroll

2023

Unison poster
NR

With its non-linear structure, Zackary Drucker’s dreamlike Unison imagines phases of an always evolving trans identity existing simultaneously over an idyllic afternoon.

Unison

Untitled Candy Darling Biopic poster
NR

Candy’s rise from childhood in Long Island beauty pageantry to her years alongside Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis as a member of the East Village experimental theater group, La Mama Etc., to starring in Warhol’s groundbreaking film, Women In Revolt.

Untitled Candy Darling Biopic

Southern for Pussy poster
NR

Over a long weekend, a mother and daughter discuss thinning vaginal walls and humiliate a handsome stranger.

Southern for Pussy

2015

Southern for Pussy poster
NR

Over a long weekend, a mother and daughter discuss thinning vaginal walls and humiliate a handsome stranger.

Southern for Pussy

2015

At Least You Know You Exist poster
NR

Amongst a trove of treasures, iconic drag performer Flawless Sabrina and Zackary Drucker ruminate on gender, drag, and resistance.

At Least You Know You Exist

2011

At Least You Know You Exist poster
NR

Amongst a trove of treasures, iconic drag performer Flawless Sabrina and Zackary Drucker ruminate on gender, drag, and resistance.

At Least You Know You Exist

2011

Flamingo Camp poster
NR

In a near-lawless squatter town known as Slab City, a group of young queer and trans people create a thriving safe space called Flamingo Camp. Under the leadership of their founder, Nova, the camp flourishes through the winter months. When Nova departs, summer’s brutal heat sets in with an unthinkable tragedy that fractures their once close-knit chosen family.

Flamingo Camp

2025

No artwork available
NR

While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.

She Gone Rogue

2012

No artwork available
NR

While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.

She Gone Rogue

2012

Mother Comes to Venus poster
NR

In a post-gender Hollywood she helped create, powerhouse agent Venus Allen is besieged by unexpected events and demanding visitors. Blinded by success and in danger of losing her soul, Venus gets help from an unlikely source, her delightfully spiritual “mother.”

Mother Comes to Venus

2019

No artwork available
NR

Two trans women share moments of love, insult, and masochism, exchanging both kiki and kai kai languages. Their syncopated exchanges oscillate from hateful to loving, blurring the distinction between lover and enemy - a position that both women seem to share.

You Will Never Ever Be a Woman. You Must Live the Rest of Your Days Entirely as a Man, and You Will Only Grow More Masculine with Each Passing Year. There Is No Way Out.

2008