Here are some more upcoming dates as producer and ally Selena Blake continues her trek around the globe showing a different side of life and positions regarding LGBT issues in Jamaica to include homophobia, homo-negativity and the gay straight alliances that can work.
Selena Blake
Preview:
"Taboo Yardies is such a timely and relevant documentary that will become a part of the rational discourse towards the rights afforded to human beings being able to be themselves without judgment or vitriol. I was most riveted from the beginning to the end of the film."-Bruce George, Co-Founder of Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam (HBO)
"It is crucial to watch Taboo Yardies for those who want to understand the problem of violence against gay and lesbian people in Jamaica. This is a thoughtful, well-balanced, entertaining and finely layered examination of this topic. Selena Blake has filmed a must-watch documentary that should be seen by everyone. Only through the education provided in Taboo Yardies can we overcome the fear and foreboding surrounding this issue, and end the wanton violence."-Wayne Besen, Founder and Executive Director –Truth Wins Out
Since 1999 we have received hundreds of submissions of films to be screened in our series. We only select the best for screening; films that invoke passion, shed important information, or touch our audience in a particular way. We have screened over 100 films as a part of the 'Film & Cultures Series' at Medgar Evers College and no film brought forth the type of deeply personal and emotional conversation that the film Taboo Yardies created. A single film can not answer all the questions or address every issue, but this film challenges how some people relate to each other as humans on many levels. –Miles McAfee, Producer of the 'Film & Culture Series'
Meanwhile It took four years, cost her friends and family and almost the roof over her head, but Queens based documentary filmmaker Selena Blake got her latest project done.
The film, “Taboo Yardies,” about homophobia in Jamaica, West Indies, and its costs to the island nation, is well worth the wait.
It’s a powerful collection of haunting images, each more powerful, and memorable, than the last: the anger in the voices of two pre-teen boys lounging on the steps of a darkened house as they disdainfully assert that gay men should be stoned; the middle-aged man who describes how he, newly arrived in New York, saw two men kissing near Penn Station and his amazement when his brother stopped him from looking for a brick to throw at them, saying “they don’t do that here.”
There is the painful story of a lesbian who tearfully tells how she has been the victim of “corrective rapes,” by men who believe such attacks will make her heterosexual. Police refuse to help her, so she in her anguish has taken to cutting herself and attempted suicide, the latticework of healed scars on her forearm visible proof of her efforts.
Dates/Places:
Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:
September 16th @ 3pm Cinemateket (The Cinemateque) in Filmens Hus, street address: Dronningens gate 16 www.cinemateket.no
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival:
Sept 22, 3.30pm- MovieTowne POS followed by Q&A
Monday Sept 24, 11.30am, UWI.- Running time-79mins.
Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:
Screening Saturday Oct 6th, 2:00pm - Running Time:79mins
Gateway Theater 4. Please get your ticket/s before it is SOLD OUT!http://www.flglff.com/
For more information please go to www.tabooyardies.com watch the trailer, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter.
Thank you for your support in advance and I look forward to seeing you J.
Taboo-forbidden & Yardies aka Jamaican
What more People are saying about Taboo Yardies:
Victor M. Gimenez Co-Programming Chairman for MGLFF & FLGLFF: TabooYardies shows you what it is like
to live in perpetual fear and to be treated as a second class citizen. It shows you when a government doesn't
defend all its citizens, then acts of hatred and brutality occur with impunity. From the mouth of a Jamaican,
“Anytime you is a known faggot in Jamaica you are going to get beaten, if it’s not today it’s tomorrow.”
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival: JAMAICA HAS a notorious reputation for homophobia and violence against gays.
This groundbreaking documentary goes beyond the headlines to look at what life is like for Jamaica's LGBT community
and the origins of the country's attitudes towards homosexuality. Interviews with gay and lesbian Jamaicans both on the
island and in the Diaspora, as well as gay-rights activists and prominent Jamaicans form the basis of this brave, important film.
Bard Yden- Program Director -Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival- Norway: I thought I was aware of the situation for LGBT people in Jamaica, but this was a real eye-opener! It's direct, brutal, nuanced, and honest, and gives you the full picture of Jamaican society. Taboo...Yardies is definitely a must-see documentary!
Jason Fiddler- Director of Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: "I have seen your documentary and it's POWERFUL!
It's by far the frankest, most intimate exploration of this issue from within Jamaica as I've ever seen and directly relates to many attitudes here in Africa and South Africa".
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