Found 7 resources on gay / lesbian

gay / lesbian


The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of gay / lesbian. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.

A Girl Named Kai

More About A Girl Named Kai from Director Kai Ling Xue  Three years in the making, shot…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

Homecoming

More About Homecoming from the Perpich Center for Arts Education Homecoming evolved over four months beginning with…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

I’m Not a Boy

More About I’m Not a Boy from Producer Listen Up! Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

I’m Just Anneke

Jonathan Skurnik
Filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik

I’m Just Anneke is the first film in a four-part series of short films called The Youth and Gender Media Project designed to educate school communities about transgender and gender nonconforming youth. The first two films in the series are finished and the second two are in production. The completed films are already being used in schools and conferences throughout the U.S. to train administrators, teachers and students about the importance of protecting all children from harassment due to gender identity and expression.

Transgender and gender fluid youth are the most courageous people I have ever met. Despite overwhelming pressure to conform to an oppressive gender binary paradigm, they refuse to do it in order to be true to themselves. I wanted to pay tribute to these courageous young people and to inspire all of us to reconsider our own decisions about gender identity and expression.

Anneke is going into eighth grade in the fall of 2010 and I plan to film her over the course of her first year in high school. This footage will become a feature length documentary about Anneke’s life as she starts to take testosterone and begins a slow and thoughtful transition to fully embody her own unique gender identity.


Official selection of the Tenth Annual Media That Matters

Luv Me Latex

In 2001, Visual AIDS partnered with Frame By Frame Fierce to produce Luv Me Latex. Frame By…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Novela, Novela

More About Novela, Novela from Director Elizabeth Miller I first met Virginia Lacayo and Amy Bank, Executive…
Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Permission

More About Permission from Producer Public Interest In 2004, MTV invited Public Interest to create 6 spots…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

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