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This is Family

Royal Ontario Museum
Fri May 15 5:15pm


	Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE for this screening
	This program has 1 FILM.

This is Family

This is Family is one of the most original documentaries on American queer life to surface in a long time. Structured like the trashiest of reality television, faux ads and all, the documentary crisscrosses the United States exposing a wide range of queer families and communities. By Paris-based filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Erreca (Gay, So What? and Cowboy Forever), the work is an all-out celebration of family alternatives, and you´ll be cheering the whole way.

From the gun-toting, speed-loving trans member of the shooting club Pink Pistols to the adorable cocktail-guzzling couple of 51 years, each and every subject is a gem. We follow Dykes on Bikes zipping across moun- tains outside San Francisco, peer into the world of previously low-self-es-teemed strippers and are offered a front row seat to ball culture in New York and Chicago.

Enhanced by cinematography reminiscent of a Technicolor film, This is Family is not your typical documentary. Because of its use of sophisticated graphics and top-notch cinematography, the film can best be described as a hyper-documentary-America like you´ve never seen it, through the lens of a big-hearted, expansively funny Parisian.

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DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE Language: French with Eng Subtitles