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Safe Zone Film Series: 2009 - 2010


Transamerica September 3, 2009 12:00 to 2:30
Milk National Coming Out Day Event
October 8, 2009		 3:00 to 5:30
Boys Don’t Cry November 5, 2009 12:00 to 2:30
Normal February 4, 2010 12:00 to 2:30
Southern Comfort March 4, 2010 3:00 to 5:00
Soldier’s Girl April 1, 2010 12:00 to 2:00

Transamerica

 September 3, 2009 12:00 to 2:30 Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
Emmy® winner Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) won the Best Actress (Drama) Golden Globe® Award for her “fiercely funny and deeply powerful” performance (Pete Hammond, Maxim) that is “thrilling to watch.” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) Huffman plays Bree Osbourne, a conservative transsexual woman, who learns she is the parent of a long-lost 17-year-old son (Kevin Zegers). The wheels of fortune take Bree and son on a cross-country adventure, including a memorable visit with Bree’s parents, that will change both of their lives. A funny, touching, completely original look at the modern American family, “Transamerica will leave you in a state of movie euphoria. It’s hilarious and deeply affecting.” (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal. “Felicity Huffman is incredible. One of the year's most unforgettable performances.” -Stephen Mooallem, Interview

Milk

 National Coming Out Day Event
 October 8, 2009		 3:00 to 5:30 pm Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
When a famous person, like the nation’s first openly gay male city supervisor, inspires an acclaimed book (The Mayor of Castro Street) and Oscar-winning documentary (The Times of Harvey Milk), a biopic can seem superfluous at best. Milk opens a camera shop on the Castro that becomes a safe haven for victims of discrimination, convincing him to enter politics. With each race he runs, Harvey’s relationship with Scott unravels further. Finally, he wins, and the real battle begins as Milk takes on Proposition 6, which denies equal rights to homosexuals. He does what he can to rally politicians, like George Moscone (Victor Garber) and Dan White (Josh Brolin). While the mayor is willing, the conservative board member has reservations, and after Milk fails to back one of White’s pet projects, the die is cast, leading to the murder of two beloved figures. If Van Sant”s film captures Harvey in all his complexities (he was, for instance, a very funny man), Milk also serves as an enticement to grass-roots activism, showing how one regular guy elevated everyone around him, notably Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch), the ex-street hustler who created the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial. Released in the wake of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage amendment, Milk is inspirational in the best way: one person can and did make a difference, but the struggle is far from over. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Boys Don’t Cry

November 5, 2009 12:00 to 2:30 Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
When Brandon Teena, a young man with an infectious, aw-shucks grin and an angelic face that’s all angles, wanders into Falls City, Nebraska, he takes to the town like it’s a second skin. In little time he’s fallen in with a gang of goofy if temperamental redneck boys, found himself a girlfriend, and befriended enough people to form something of a small family. In fact, it’s the best time Brandon’s ever had. However, there are shadows looming over Brandon’s life: a court date for grand theft auto, a checkered criminal record, and a seemingly innocuous speeding ticket that could prove to be his undoing. Why? Because as it turns out, Brandon Teena is actually Teena Brandon, a woman masquerading as a man.

Normal

February 4, 2010 12:00 to 2:30 Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
Ray and Irma are a devoted couple living a normal life in rural Illinois, until Roy decides that his life must change and confesses to Irma that he’s a woman trapped in a man's body. Now Roy must face their friends, his coworkers and his own children with the whole new way of life he has planned - and they must face him. What happens to a town, a factory and a loving marriage when confronted with such a transformation is all about being who you are, being in love, and simply being normal.

Southern Comfort

March 4, 2010 3:00 to 5:00 pm Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
As Robert Eads puts it in one of the first scenes of this remarkable documentary, he lives in “Bubba-land”--which wouldn’t be unusual if Robert weren’t a female-to-male transsexual. Southern Comfort chronicles the last year of Robert’s life, as he succumbed to, ironically, cervical cancer; over that year, documentarian Kate Davis developed an amazing intimacy with Robert and his adopted family of other transsexuals living in the depths of Georgia, including his vivacious male-to-female transsexual girlfriend Lola. The film’s title comes from an annual gathering that Robert describes as “the cotillion of the trans community, the coming-out party”--an event part convention, part high school prom. Every scene testifies to both the enormous difficulties they face and the grace, humor, and sheer will with which they take it all on. It’s not surprising Southern Comfort has won numerous awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. --Bret Fetzer

Soldier’s Girl

April 1, 2010 12:00 to 2:00 Wellness Center Training Room,
Gove, Ground Floor, 0015
The true story of Soldier’s Girl, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer was misunderstood by fellow soldiers and eventually leads to his brutal death. The outstanding performances by Lee Pace and Troy Garity will draw you into this emotional and powerful film.
 

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