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Ban Conversion Therapy Now
'It's Not Therapy, It's Abuse'
20 January 2023 2 mins 44s
It's a sin.
by Andrew MacGregor

Directors Zhang + Knight deliver a masterclass in psychological horror with this ad for Ban Conversion Therapy Now. The protagonist is a trans woman whose family still calls her Daniel, confident that she will be 'cured' through psychiatry and religious intervention. All she needs to do is sign on the dotted line.

What follows is a disturbing and deliberate process of dehumanisation, with dialogue like "You're sick, but we can make it better" and "Does that look like a girl's body to you?" almost too cruel to stomach. Worse still is how staff swarm around the protagonist and perform an 'exorcism'.

She's then taken for a haircut by her dad, who tells the barber "not to hold back". As she runs a strand of hair through her fingers, we see traces of her blue nail varnish—something a good boy like Daniel would never touch.

The near-three-minute film is an ordeal from start to finish, though it's clear that the protagonist's torment has only just begun. A comprehensive ban on conversion therapy looks to spare others a similar fate, so long as overdue promises are kept.

Product Category: Lobby Groups

Territory: UK



The&Partnership
ECD: Toby Allen
Creative: Mika Alcock
Creative: Dan Dehlavi
Snr Producer: Sam Ramsey
Academy Films
Director: Zhang + Knight
Producer: Lexi Kiddo
Prod M'ger: Sorcha O'Sullivan
EP: Darapen Vongsa-Nga
DOP: David Foulkes
MD: Medb Riordan
tenthree
Editor: Ellie Johnson
Glassworks
Colourist: Jonny Thorpe
Flame: Ally Burnett
Flame: Peter Nemec
Flame: Anthony Laranjo
Factory Studios
Sound: Jack Hallett
Producer: Ciara Wakley
Siren
Supervisor: Joshua Gibbard
Supervisor: Siân Rogers

  Ban Conversion Therapy Now - 'It's Not Therapy, It's Abuse'


Ban Conversion Therapy Now
'It's Not Therapy, It's Abuse'
20 January 2023 2 mins 44s

It's a sin.

Directors Zhang + Knight deliver a masterclass in psychological horror with this ad for Ban Conversion Therapy Now. The protagonist is a trans woman whose family still calls her Daniel, confident that she will be 'cured' through psychiatry and religious intervention. All she needs to do is sign on the dotted line.

What follows is a disturbing and deliberate process of dehumanisation, with dialogue like "You're sick, but we can make it better" and "Does that look like a girl's body to you?" almost too cruel to stomach. Worse still is how staff swarm around the protagonist and perform an 'exorcism'.

She's then taken for a haircut by her dad, who tells the barber "not to hold back". As she runs a strand of hair through her fingers, we see traces of her blue nail varnish—something a good boy like Daniel would never touch.

The near-three-minute film is an ordeal from start to finish, though it's clear that the protagonist's torment has only just begun. A comprehensive ban on conversion therapy looks to spare others a similar fate, so long as overdue promises are kept.

Product Category: Lobby Groups

Territory: UK



The&Partnership
ECD: Toby Allen
Creative: Mika Alcock
Creative: Dan Dehlavi
Snr Producer: Sam Ramsey
Academy Films
Director: Zhang + Knight
Producer: Lexi Kiddo
Prod M'ger: Sorcha O'Sullivan
EP: Darapen Vongsa-Nga
DOP: David Foulkes
MD: Medb Riordan
tenthree
Editor: Ellie Johnson
Glassworks
Colourist: Jonny Thorpe
Flame: Ally Burnett
Flame: Peter Nemec
Flame: Anthony Laranjo
Factory Studios
Sound: Jack Hallett
Producer: Ciara Wakley
Siren
Supervisor: Joshua Gibbard
Supervisor: Siân Rogers

Ban Conversion Therapy Now 20 January 2023
'It's Not Therapy, It's Abuse' 2 mins 44s

It's a sin.

by Andrew MacGregor

Directors Zhang + Knight deliver a masterclass in psychological horror with this ad for Ban Conversion Therapy Now. The protagonist is a trans woman whose family still calls her Daniel, confident that she will be 'cured' through psychiatry and religious intervention. All she needs to do is sign on the dotted line.

What follows is a disturbing and deliberate process of dehumanisation, with dialogue like "You're sick, but we can make it better" and "Does that look like a girl's body to you?" almost too cruel to stomach. Worse still is how staff swarm around the protagonist and perform an 'exorcism'.

She's then taken for a haircut by her dad, who tells the barber "not to hold back". As she runs a strand of hair through her fingers, we see traces of her blue nail varnish—something a good boy like Daniel would never touch.

The near-three-minute film is an ordeal from start to finish, though it's clear that the protagonist's torment has only just begun. A comprehensive ban on conversion therapy looks to spare others a similar fate, so long as overdue promises are kept.

Product Category: Lobby Groups

Territory: UK



The&Partnership
ECD: Toby Allen
Creative: Mika Alcock
Creative: Dan Dehlavi
Snr Producer: Sam Ramsey
Academy Films
Director: Zhang + Knight
Producer: Lexi Kiddo
Prod M'ger: Sorcha O'Sullivan
EP: Darapen Vongsa-Nga
DOP: David Foulkes
MD: Medb Riordan
tenthree
Editor: Ellie Johnson
Glassworks
Colourist: Jonny Thorpe
Flame: Ally Burnett
Flame: Peter Nemec
Flame: Anthony Laranjo
Factory Studios
Sound: Jack Hallett
Producer: Ciara Wakley
Siren
Supervisor: Joshua Gibbard
Supervisor: Siân Rogers