Announcing Frameline's 2007 Top 10 Bestsellers!
From Tongues Untied to Two-Spirit People, here are Frameline's 10 must-have films for 2007:
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Tongues Untied
Rereleased in 2007 with additional interviews and other bonus features, Tongues Untied is the definitive work of visionary filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs. The stories he tells combine fierce examples of homophobia and racism with vignettes that affirm the black gay male
experience. Read more...
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In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents
Five
young people give you a chance to walk in their shoes - to hear their
own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family. Read more...
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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens
tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective,
violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the
United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin
neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's
Stonewall Inn. Read more... |
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Just Call Me Kade
Maintaining
a supportive relationship, friends and family in Just Call Me Kade express their feelings
about sixteen year old Kade's transition to male. Read more...
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transparent
Categories that we all take for granted are blown wide open in transparent,
a new documentary film about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in
the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories,
gone on to raise their biological children. Read more...
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The Year of Paper
The Year of Paper
chronicles the newlywed year of three couples - lesbian, heterosexual
and gay. How different is a "gay marriage" from a heterosexual one?
Read more...
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Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP
An invaluable history of the activity of ACT UP, Fight Back, Fight AIDS presents footage from the first meeting in 1987 through 2002. Read more...
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No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon have been partners in love and political struggle for over fifty years. With incisive interviews, rare archival images and warmhearted humor, No Secret Anymore reveals their inspiring public work, as well as their charming private relationship. Read more... |
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The Believers
The Believers
is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about
faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender
gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma - how to reconcile
their gender identity with the widespread belief that changing one's
gender goes against the word of God.
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Two-Spirit People
Two-Spirit People is an overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation. Read more...
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About Frameline
Frameline
is the nation's leading nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the
exhibition, distribution, promotion and funding of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender media arts. Frameline's
integrated programs provide critical funding for emerging LGBT
filmmakers, reach hundreds of thousands with a collection of more than
200 films distributed nationally, and create an international stage for
the world's best queer film through the San Francisco International
LGBT Film Festival and additional year-round screenings.
Since 1981, Frameline's
distribution program has been providing groundbreaking lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender film and video that can be used in a variety
of academic, professional and community settings. Frameline's
collection includes documentary, feature-length and short fiction,
experimental and animation titles representing LGBT filmmaking from
around the world.
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