‘Real Boy’ a journey through transition and acceptance

An award-winning film airing nationally this week over PBS has an Alaska connection.
“Real Boy” is the story of a trangender youth who is building a career as a musician in the Bay Area of California.
The film was directed by Shaleece Haas, a former news intern at KCAW in Sitka.
It is Haas’s first major independent project after receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, but not her first time on national television.
Her 2010 thesis