Reel In The Closet

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Series/Themes: Documentary, Historical Themes, LGBTQ Focus, Political and Social Issues

Genre: Documentaries

Film Year: 2015

Locations: USA

Film Length: 70 min.

Director: Stu Maddux

Featuring: Tom Ammiano, Barbara Gittings, David Imming

Discover the lost news stories, community productions, and home movies that generations of LGBTQ people have preserved for future generations. Through exclusive access and extensive restoration of never-before-seen material, this is the first feature-length film revealing queer people chronicling their lives as far back as the 1930s. There are even more compelling finds waiting in closets everywhere, but according to film experts, most of these treasures are thrown away by friends and family unaware of the extremely rare look at the past they hold. Regardless of their background, audiences leave compelled to discover what’s in their own closets. Discussion with filmmaker Stu Maddux and moderator Steven Villereal (U.Va.)

Friday, November 6
3:30 PM
Other : PVCC Dickinson Center
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Discover the lost news stories, community productions, and home movies that generations of LGBTQ people have preserved for future generations. Through exclusive access and extensive restoration of never-before-seen material, this is the first feature-length film revealing queer people chronicling their lives as far back as the 1930s. There are even more compelling finds waiting in closets everywhere, but according to film experts, most of these treasures are thrown away by friends and family unaware of the extremely rare look at the past they hold. Regardless of their background, audiences leave compelled to discover what’s in their own closets. Discussion with filmmaker Stu Maddux and moderator Steven Villereal (U.Va.)

 Other : PVCC Dickinson Center Virginia Film Festival info@virginiafilmfestival.org

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