A short documentary about a Denton family is among the nominees for the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Last year, directors Tanya Selvaratnam and Rose Bush made a short documentary about the Briggle family in Denton, produced by Story Syndicate and The New Yorker.
“Love to the Max” tells the story of how the family coped with the terror and trauma they lived with when Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of transgender children. Abbott and other conservative Texas politicians amplified rhetoric around transgender children and teens in February 2022, when the governor officially asked the department to investigate parents and guardians who sought gender-affirming care for their children…