Second Nature:
Narrated by Elliot Page
The Hollywood Reporter: November 2025
Drew Denny discusses how actor-producer Elliot Page helped deliver a film one scientist was afraid to be in and the filmmaker herself thinks could be banned.
Did you know that clownfish change sex from male to female? (So if Nemo’s mom had died in real life, his dad would have become his mom.) Did you know that albatross, penguins and swans parent in same sex pairs? Or that bonobos, who are just as closely related to us as chimps, are matriarchal and have same-sex sex every day?!
Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trans trailblazer Dr Joan Roughgarden as she introduces audiences to some of the 1500+ animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more, learning from queer, female, BIPOC and immigrant scientists along the way.
Second Nature — everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.
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Narrated by Elliot Page
Written, Directed and Produced by Drew Denny
Executive Produced by Megan Ellison on behalf of Annapurna Pictures and Elliot Page + Matt Jordan Smith of Page Boy Productions
Co-Produced, Co-written and Edited by Jennifer Steinman-Sternin
Associate Producers: Caitlin Craggs, Tani Ikeda, and Jaclyn Moore
Cinematographers: Nikki Bramley, Tani Ikeda, Keoni Bowthorpe, Claire Pijman, Tijana Petrovik, and Ino Yang-Popper
Original Music By Chanell Crichlow
Animation by Caitlin Craggs
Sound Design and Mix by Bijan Sharifi
Color Correction by Roast n Post
Archival Producer Leah Simon