Film Screening and Discussion: Southern Comfort

[Shana A]

This Week at UAlbany:

<Thursday, Feb 14>

Film Screening and Discussion:  Southern Comfort

4:15-6pm, Campus Center 375

http://pasarockefeller.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/pasabilities-214/

http://www.albany.edu/counseling_center

      This award-winning documentary follows the story of Robert Eads, an FTM transsexual suffering from ovarian cancer who faces sure death after 20 doctors have refused to treat him for his condition.  Far away from Atlanta's city lights, Robert makes a life for himself and his two families:  his biological family of two parents, two sons by birth, and a darling three-year-old grandson; and his chosen family of two FTM transsexual sons, Maxwell and Cass.  Robert is falling in love with Lola Cola, a MTF transsexual, but as hard as he tries to resist, in the face of his impending death, the romance blooms beautifully in bittersweet irony.