Monday, March 24, 2008
Movie night at CALC
http://pflag-es.blogspot.com/2008/03/movie-night-at-calc.htmlPLEASE JOIN US FOR MOVIE AND SUPPER NIGHT at CALC
Wednesday April 2, 2008 . 5:15 pm. 458 Blair Boulevard (across from World Café.)
We'll serve dinner and screen the move "Transparent" by filmmaker Jules Rosskam.
This is the first in a series of movie nights planned for the upcoming year. We value your company and appreciate your feedback and participation in the discussion following the film.
SYNOPSIS
A new documentary film about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children.
The first-person stories in "transparent" explain how changing genders is dealt with and impacts the relationships, if at all, within these families.
This film has a shocking façade - as a story about transsexual parents – but viewers will be struck by its universality. The subjects resonate powerfully as "normal" parents and human beings dealing with issues like single parenthood, teen pregnancy and their children's emotional and physical development.
But through these extraordinary men, the film challenges, like never, before the ways that we relate to one another, particularly within our immediate families, based on gender.
