Jewish religion and culture , queer sexuality and gender are recurring themes in Soloway 's show , '' Transparent '' . " The '' Transparent '' narrative is not , then , just or even mostly about transition and transgender . It ’s about big themes like familial secrets and transformation , revelation and change , all of which are rendered through the specificity and magic of television images and sounds , which create imaginative worlds . " Soloway gave a keynote address for Toronto International Film Festival discussing the female gaze . In the keynote address , Soloway said , " The Female Gaze inspires a collective roar , we fill with power as we corroborate one another and collaborate , blatantly ask the obvious questions about the divided feminine , call out from our muted and blindfolded object-ized humanity . We take our blindfolds off and say what we see . " Soloway has said that they feel that they have always been writing similar themes , what they call " The Heroine 's Journey , " which is about " repairing the divided feminine : the wife and the other woman confronting each other -- mom , stripper . That I think women 's journeys are really about repairing these sort of divided parts of ourselves . And this divide in our culture that I think is responsible for so much that is a problem in our culture . " At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Soloway received the Directing Award ( United States , Drama ) for their first feature-length film , the 2013 comedy-drama '' Afternoon Delight '' . They have seven Emmy nominations and two wins . Soloway is also a member of the board of the San Francisco Film Society
2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 Sundance Film Festival
Jill Soloway