US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

2011

Question One

with For Spacious Sky

Sunday

May 5, 2013

@

3:00 pm

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

With in person.
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Director
James Nubile & Joe Fox
Year
2011
Run Time
113
min
Country
USA
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
A documentary portrait of Maine’s 2009 Question One referendum, addressing the rights of same-sex couples to marry.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
On May 6th, 2009 Maine became the f irst state to legislatively grant same-sex couples the right to marry. Seven months later, a referendum reversed this right, and Maine became thirty-first state to say “no.” Question One, a new documentary by award winning filmmakers Joe Fox and James Nubile, chronicles the fierce and emotional battle. The film chronicles in “War Room” fashion the behind the scenes workings on BOTH sides of the campaign (the first time this has ever been done). With deeply personal and revealing interviews, people bared their hope and heartache as they fought to the finish for an issue framed and anchored in passion and purpose. The film also documents the controversial leading role of California based campaign consultants Frank Schubert and Jeff Flint as referendum proponents. Schubert-Flint Public Affairs headed the 2008 campaign for Proposition 8 in California, and have since taken the lead in a nationwide effort to outlaw same-sex marriage in other states. (Description courtesy of filmmaker.)
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For Spacious Sky

CONTENT WARNING:
A short film set on Election Day 2008 against the landscape of rural America, For Spacious Sky is a story of renewal, redemption, and hope defying all odds. Discussion with director follows screening.

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