| On the Downlow by Abigail Child Now Available
TWN is pleased to release Abigail
Child's new documentary On the
Downlow, an intimate portrait of four men
negotiating their bisexual desire within the
African-American community of Cleveland,
Ohio. On the Downlow is part of the
Queer Essentials Collection, a package of
ten essential Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender titles that is a must for any
educational collection. This collection
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| The Queer Essentials Collection
On the Downlow
On the Downlow presents an intimate
portrait
of four men negotiating their bisexual desire
within the African-American community of
Cleveland, Ohio. These men self-describe as
"dipping on both sides of the
fence". The film showcases their secret lives
and aspirations as it reveals the complex
intersections of sexuality, race, class and
family in contemporary middle America. We
enter barely-understood sexual worlds to
witness astonishing revelations, many of
which have never been seen before.
* Tribeca Film Festival, New York,
2007
* NewFest, The New York Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival,
2007
* The Best of NewFest at BAM, New York,
2007
* Frameline 31, The San Francisco
International LGBT Film Festival,
2007
"There are no perpetrators and victims in the
film... Nobody is screaming that these men
are responsible for the high rates of HIV
infection among African American women...
Child's film shows men who, while not
necessarily conflicted about their sexual
orientation, fear familial, institutional or
societal repercussions for revealing the
truth."--Anthony Glassman, Gay People's
Chronicle, Cleveland, Ohio
"In On the Downlow... Child creates a
compelling collective portrait of the
physical, psychological and emotional
travails of an underground lifestyle finally
surfacing above ground."--Tribeca Film
Festival, New York
"Abigail Child's film takes a sensitive and
understanding approach to the interview
subjects and to issues related to downlow
sexuality."--NewFest, New York
"On the Downlow is a sensitively
handled
documentary focusing on bisexual
African-American men in Cleveland who
struggle to come out amidst the pressures of
both the gay community and the black
community."--Brooklyn Academy of Arts, New
York
Abigail Child |
documentary |
54 minutes | 2006 | $225 | Discounts
available for high schools, public libraries
and community organizations
view
in catalog
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A Litany for Survival: The Life
and Work of Audre Lorde
An epic portrait of the eloquent,
award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother,
teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose
writings - spanning five decades -
articulated some of the most important social
and political visions of the century. A TWN
Production.
Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson |
documentary |
60 minutes | 1995 | $225
view
in catalog
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Black Nations/Queer Nations?
This is an experimental documentary
chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking
conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in
the African diaspora.
Shari Frilot | documentary |
59 minutes | 1995 | $250
view
in catalog
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I Exist
I Exist is a documentary exploring individual
journeys of Lesbian and Gay people of Middle
Eastern cultures living in the United States.
Peter Barbosa | documentary |
56 minutes | 2003 | $225
view
in catalog
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Jareena, Portrait of a Hijda
This video offers a profile of a transsexual
and her community in the Indian city of
Bangalore.
Prem Kalliat | documentary |
25 minutes | 1990 | $175
view
in catalog
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Orientations
More than a dozen men and women of different
Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their
lives as members of a minority within a
minority in Canada.
Richard Fung | documentary |
56 minutes | 1985 | $175
view
in catalog
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Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing,
and "conspiring to influence, change, and
protest policies and practices of the United
States government through violent and illegal
means", Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and
one of six defendants in the Resistance
Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison.
Out is the story of her life and times:
five tumultuous decades of struggle for
freedom and justice.
Sonja de Vries & Rhonda Collins | documentary |
60 minutes | 2000 | $225
view
in catalog
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Testing the Limits
This powerful, informative video details the
historical struggle which community
activists, health
workers, drug rehabilitation counselors and
local political figures waged against AIDS in
the late 1980s.
Testing The Limits Collective | documentary |
30 minutes | 1989 | $125
view
in catalog
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Two Spirits: Native American
Lesbians And Gays
This video explores the Native American
belief in Two Spirit human androgyny.
T. Osa Hidalgo-Dela Riva & Deep Dish TV |
documentary |
28 minutes | 1994 | $225
view
in catalog
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Vintage: Families Of Value
Vintage is an experimental documentary
which
looks at three African American families
through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings
- including the filmmaker and his younger
brother.
Thomas Allen Harris | documentary |
72 minutes | 1995 | $325
view
in catalog
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