WHAT DO YOU do when you’re tired of seeing the same trans characters in film and TV? You make a neon-hued horror about a cancelled ’90s TV show that grips the lives of two lonely teens, of course. That was the case for filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, who, after feeling frustrated at not seeing their own trans experience mirrored in the “psychos, killers who want to make a skin suit out of a victim, or martyrs” on screen, embarked on a deeply personal filmmaking journey, which began with low-budget indie We’re All Going To The World’s Fair and continues with Sundance hit I Saw The TV Glow.
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Teen misfits Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine);