Audience Response: Red Without Blue

The film itself was very personal and dug so deeply into the twins' lives that it felt like a gift being allowed into their world -- and they didnt tell the story like they were experts, they felt honest and real and completely unpretentious. Not only was it a trans story, but it became a universal story as it went on, in the interviews with the parents and all of the archival home movies and photos, that touched everyone.

Iit became a story everyone could relate to about growing up, the relationship between parents and children, how you choose the life you want to lead for yourself, becoming the person you want to be and are comfortable being... it transcends boundaries that people like to put up between themselves and shows that we are all in the same world together, no matter how different we are or like to think we are, there are so many comonalities that bring us together. the support to be found in those simmilarities can be universally comforting if we just open ourselves up to it.

Many thanks to audience member Liz for sending in her response to the screening!

True Stories filmmakers out and about in the world

A congratulations to the team from Red Without Blue for a fantastic, sold-out screening on Wednesday night. If you weren't able to snag a ticket, you can also catch the film as part of this year's Frameline Festival, on June 17 and June 20. And if you miss that, then tune in to the Sundance Channel on June 25 at 9pm for the television premiere.

Row Hard No Excuses continues to screen at film festivals around the country, recently showing at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Interesting factoid from last month's Q&A: the wreckage of the American Star washed up on a distant shore, and is in the process of being recovered. I salute anyone with the guts to sail that ship in another race.

Piece By Piece director Nic Hill continues to scour the globe for the making of Truth In Numbers: The Wikipedia Story. According to their Current Shooting Schedule, the wrapped up in Cape Town last month and are onwards to Croation next month. Good times.