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From: Third World Newsreel <twn@twn.org>
Date: June 6, 2012 11:09:03 AM EDT
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Subject: | Watch MARRIAGE EQUALITY Documentary on YouTube!
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| Marriage Equality Documentary Now Available on YouTube!
This new initiative by Chimpanzee Productions will allow national and international audiences to use the documentary film as a call to action in education and advocacy campaigns in support of same-sex marriage. Through local screenings and community engagement campaigns, the film already played a role in the passage of the New York State 2011 same-sex marriage vote as well as on the recent NAACP endorsement of marriage equality.
On June 12, Thomas Allen Harris, Black Public Media a.k.a. the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) will sponsor a national online discussion around the film and the role that African American Massachusetts Representative Byron Rushing played in promoting marriage equality as a civil right.
On June 19 at 4PM EST, Black Public Media will host a livestream chat with producer Thomas Allen Harris, as well as filmmaker Yoruba Richen, producer of The New Black, an explosive upcoming documentary that uncovers the complicated and often combative histories of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements.
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Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness is available from Third World Newsreel for preview, rental and educational purchase. For an interview with the filmmaker, please contact Third World Newsreel.
***Jury Award for Best Documentary Short, Long Island LGBT Film Festival, 2011***
This documentary interweaves archival footage and photos with contemporary interviews to illuminate events surrounding the pivotal Massachusetts state constitutional convention on same sex marriage. At the center of our story is Massachusetts Representative Byron Rushing, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement who took the campaign for same sex marriage into African American communities. He directly challenged many religious leaders, and advocated for same sex marriage as a Civil Rights issue on par with the liberation movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Rushing, a heterosexual man of strong faith, has spent a lifetime championing the causes of the underserved, overlooked and oppressed.
Marriage Equality, a project of award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, was commissioned by Tribeca Film Institute's 'All Access' Program in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
"This well-made short serves up a fine overview of a fascinating figure in the ongoing struggle for social equality. Recommended."
--P. Hall, Video Librarian
"This documentary will spark a lot of discussion about race and gender as cultural concepts and institutions and, more so, about alliances between different kinds of oppressed minorities struggling for their constitutionally-guaranteed rights in a country where, too often, it is not the Constitution but some other document or ideology that defines our common rights and our common humanity. Suitable for high school classes and college courses in cultural anthropology, anthropology of sex/gender, political anthropology, anthropology of race/diversity, and American studies, as well as general audiences."
--Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database
"A new documentary explores the often touchy issue through a focus on Byron Rushing, a straight African-American politician from Massachusetts who made marriage equality a priority before it became a national movement."
--Jenée Desmond-Harris, The Root
"Marriage Equality is unique because it's the first film to explicitly address the similarities between the civil rights and marriage equality movements."
--Rebecca Pahle, MovieMaker Magazine
Thomas Allen Harris | documentary | 15 minutes | 2011
Higher Education $250
K-12, Public Libraries & Select Groups $200
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