documentary
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Follow My Voice: With The Music of Hedwig
Back in 2003 Chris Slusarenko a record producer had the idea of getting some cutting-edge musicians to record a tribute album consisting of all the songs from ‘Hedwig and The Angry Inch’. And all the proceeds from the sales of the album would go towards helping fund the Harvey Milk School for gay, bisexual and transgendered kids in NY just as…
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Family Ties aka Zeman Mishpacha
When Israeli filmmaker Nitzan Gilady crammed his parents and two grown up brothers and one sister in lawn into an RV to travel thousands of miles across country for a week to go visit the Grand Canyon I was very skeptical. What on earth could happen over the Passover holiday with the family living on top of…
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How To Survive A Plague : the seminal AIDS movie
David France’s meticulously detailed account is how an angry and fiercely committed group of selfless people refused to lie down and play dead and by taking on both the pharmaceutical industry and Government institutions, they made a real difference and saved countless live. This is of course the story of the AIDS epidemic which…
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(A) Sexual
I guess the byline of this movie could be ‘Everything You Need To Know About Not Having Sex’ ,but unlike Woody Allen’s movie that I paraphrased this from, this documentary is no laughing matter. It focuses on David Jay a very earnest handsome young man in his 20’s who after he ‘came out’ to his parents established a whole network…
