The Stroll

The Stroll (2023)

Sex Work. Survival. Sisterhood.

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.

Date of release
2023-01-23
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Zackary Drucker, Kristen Parker Lovell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance Special Jury Prize for Clarity of Vision

The Stroll is a 2023 American documentary film, directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker. The film documents trans history in New York City, from the perspective of Black and Latina trans women who had been sex workers in the Meatpacking District during the 1980s and 1990s, in an area known as The Stroll.

Production

Kristen Lovell began documenting her experience as a sex worker in the Meatpacking District in New York City during the 1990s, while she was living in a youth shelter and enrolled in a media training program. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she explained, "I was the only Black trans woman in our cohort of young people, so I would tell them about what was going on on 14th Street." Lovell continued sex work after she became ineligible f…

The Stroll is the directorial debut for Lovell, and in 2020 she met with Zackary Drucker, who had experience with documentaries about trans women and became the co-director for the film. Drucker told the Los Angeles Times, "This is a history that I have experienced as passed down through stories with my elders.

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