Although a few states made inroads towards same-sex marriage, most of the country is still in a battle over these wedding ceremonies.
On pastor, Reverend Frank Schaefer of Pennsylvania defied the United Methodist Church to officiate his son’s same sex wedding. It resulted in a news spectacle that places Schaefer on trial for his defiance with the church.
Director Scott Sheppard (Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws) captured the entire ordeal in his documentary An Act Of Love as the entire family is thrust into the fight for equality for the Lbgtq community.
The documentary won numerous awards at film festivals, including Mill Valley Film Festival Silver Audience Award, San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Best in the Fest award, Best Documentary Jury Award at the Outflix Film Festival and Audience Choice at the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival in Calgary.
The documentary will be available to VOD/Digital and DVD through...
On pastor, Reverend Frank Schaefer of Pennsylvania defied the United Methodist Church to officiate his son’s same sex wedding. It resulted in a news spectacle that places Schaefer on trial for his defiance with the church.
Director Scott Sheppard (Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws) captured the entire ordeal in his documentary An Act Of Love as the entire family is thrust into the fight for equality for the Lbgtq community.
The documentary won numerous awards at film festivals, including Mill Valley Film Festival Silver Audience Award, San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Best in the Fest award, Best Documentary Jury Award at the Outflix Film Festival and Audience Choice at the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival in Calgary.
The documentary will be available to VOD/Digital and DVD through...
- 1/9/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Miramax have acquired U.S. distribution rights to “I, Tonya” by Steven Rogers, the incredible true life story of controversial figure skater Tonya Harding with Margot Robbie starring as Harding and Craig Gillespie directing.
The edgy comedy will be produced by Bryan Unkeless for Clubhouse Pictures, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment and Steven Rogers, who also wrote the screenplay. Len Blavatnik and Aviv Giladi will executive produce for AI Film, which is financing the project. Rosanne Korenberg will oversee the project for Miramax.
The film will reportedly “peel back the layers of Tonya Harding’s sensationalized involvement in the 1994 attack on rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, exposing the absurd, tragic and hilarious story-behind-the-story of...
– Miramax have acquired U.S. distribution rights to “I, Tonya” by Steven Rogers, the incredible true life story of controversial figure skater Tonya Harding with Margot Robbie starring as Harding and Craig Gillespie directing.
The edgy comedy will be produced by Bryan Unkeless for Clubhouse Pictures, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment and Steven Rogers, who also wrote the screenplay. Len Blavatnik and Aviv Giladi will executive produce for AI Film, which is financing the project. Rosanne Korenberg will oversee the project for Miramax.
The film will reportedly “peel back the layers of Tonya Harding’s sensationalized involvement in the 1994 attack on rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, exposing the absurd, tragic and hilarious story-behind-the-story of...
- 12/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The story of Methodist pastor Frank Shaefer, who was defrocked after officiating his son’s same-sex wedding, made headlines in 2013. Now, with the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, Scott Sheppard highlights the rift the issue has created in the United Methodist church in his new documentary “An Act of Love.” Although the pastor has since been reinstated, producers Pauley Perrette and Mike C. Manning are bringing the movie to Northern California’s Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 9 with the intent of getting the movie seen by as many people as possible, to spread awareness of the issue. “The United...
- 10/2/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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