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    One Wedding and a Revolution

    Debra Chasnoff 2004 U.S.A Documentary color 20min English Betacam
    On February 12, 2004, the mayor of San Francisco decided to stop discriminating against lesbian and gay couples by instructing city and county officials to allow them to get married. Pioneering activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, celebrating their 51st anniversary, were invited by the mayor's political director to be the first couple to tie the knot. Filmmaker Debra Chasnoff was also invited to document this historic occasion. With interviews with Mayor Gavin Newsom, Joyce Newstat (the mayor's policy director), City Assessor Mabel Teng, and Kate Kendell, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, One Wedding and a Revolution takes you behind the scenes during the frantic days leading up to February 12 and this momentous ceremony.

    Director

    Debra Chasnoff

    Debra Chasnoff is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements in many fields. She is a senior producer at Women's Educational Media and co-creator of The Respect for All Project, a program that produces media and training resources to help prevent prejudice among young people. Chasnoff currently serves as the chair of New Day Films, a national progressive film- distribution co-operation. She serves on the national advisory board for Frameline, the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and Jewish Voices for Peace. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in San Francisco with her two school-age children.

    Debra Chasnoff

    1984 Choosing Children

    1991 Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment

    1996 It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    1998 Homes & Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action

    1999 Digital Divide (TV)

    2000 That's a Family

    2003 《這次是真的！》Let's Get Real! 

    Director/ Debra Chasnoff

    Producer/ Debra Chasnoff

    Cinematographer/ Sophie Constantinou and Fawn Yacker

    Music/ Miriam Cutler

    Sound/ Recordist Wellington j. Bowler

    Print Source: Women’s Educational Media

    Tel: 415 641 4616 #304

    Fax: 415 641 4632

    Email: schen@respectforall.org

    http://www.womedia.org

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