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Title: Could "Pier Kids: The Life" Be The Next "Paris Is Burning"?
Post by: DriftingCrow on November 28, 2013, 11:36:06 PM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/could-pier-kids-the-life-be-the-next-paris-is-burning
Author: Saaed Jones Source: BuzzFeed

Elegance Bratton's documentary about New York City's LGBT homeless youth and the neighborhood they call home might be the next "must see" film — if it gets made.

His goal, ultimately, is for the film "to help poor and working class families of color understand the gay and transgender youth who are inside their homes so they stop kicking them out onto the streets."

[. . . ] the writer and filmmaker is translating his experiences into a documentary that's both in conversation with "Paris Is Burning" but also more direct in its attempt to make sense of the way class and race dynamics act upon the city's LGBT community [. . . ]