Donât miss this curated collection of short documentaries featuring or produced by the LGBT community.
Presented by Stonewall Columbus.
Films include:
As Human As I Am - Length 3o minutes
Alice McDowell
LGBTI activists in Nepal fight for the recognition of a âthird genderâ category. Religious leaders in Malawi come face to face with the very people that they condemn. In Fiji, a school teacher challenges his students to question their belief that homosexuality is wrong.
Sexual ...
Donât miss this curated collection of short documentaries featuring or produced by the LGBT community.
Presented by Stonewall Columbus.
Films include:
As Human As I Am - Length 3o minutes
Alice McDowell
LGBTI activists in Nepal fight for the recognition of a âthird genderâ category. Religious leaders in Malawi come face to face with the very people that they condemn. In Fiji, a school teacher challenges his students to question their belief that homosexuality is wrong.
Sexual and gender minority groups around the world face many forms of discrimination and persecution. âAs Human as I Amâ documents stories and strategies from LGBTI communities in Nepal, Malawi and Fiji, as they campaign for recognition, protection and inclusion. Although human sexuality and gender identity is incredibly diverse, everyone is born with the same right to live and love freely, without fear of oppression or exclusion.
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Grey Violet - Odd One Out - Length 54 minutes
Reetta Aalto
Russiaâs current patriotic bluster and turn to ultra conservative values have driven many of its citizens to flee abroad. Grey Violet (not he or she, but ze) is a mathematician by profession, an activist by heart and one of those who has had to leave Russia for fear of imprisonment. In Moscow, ze has become a target of various neo-conservative groups and has even been singled out by President Putin himself. Now ze is in Finland seeking asylum. Left behind in Moscow is Grey Violetâs mother Svetlana, worrying about her sonâs future and thinking back over how things culminated to such a serious state. Throughout the years she has tried her best to accept and protect her eccentric and radical son. Apart from one another, they each have to find their own way to cope with this situation which was forced upon them.
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Good Morning, Mrs. Rice - Length 24 minutes
Andie Eisen
A documentary-style investigation of an Appalachian widow who paid another woman to sleep in her bed for almost thirty years.
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En Pointe - Length 7 minutes
Matthew Kaplowitz
David Baxter is destroying stereotypes by showing that a 6' 3" 280 lb man can be a ballet dancer and burlesque superstar, spreading body positivity through his art.
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