COLAGE Bay Area

COLAGE Bay Area Digital Stories This SUNDAY and on YouTube Dec 10 08

COLAGE Bay Area is proud to share the result of our Tell Your Story-Change The World digital storytelling workshop.

Please join us this Sunday December 14th at the Embarcadero YMCA, as we screen the videos and celebrate our families. This is a family event, open to parents and COLAGErs of all ages!

After the screening, join us for ice skating at the Embarcadero Ice Rink!

What: Digital Stories and Ice Skating
When: Sunday December 14th, 2-4pm
Where: Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street, SF
Who: COLAGE Bay Area Families!

If you are unable to join us on Sunday, check out the videos on our COLAGE YouTube Channel!

Please RSVP to monica(at)colage.org

Join COLAGE for an Intimate Film Screening Dec 5 08

COLAGE and Cape Cod Films are pleased to invite you to an intimate advanced screening of:

American Primitive
December 11th, 2008
7 pm
At the Variety Screening Room
582 Market Street, at 2nd St.
in the HobartBuilding
Suggested donation per ticket $10- 25; No one turned away for lack of funds
Space is limited so please RSVP to Meredith@colage.org

Join COLAGE for an intimate reception, screening of the film, and Q and A with the director and other special guests.

About American Primitive:

American Primitive was directed and co-written by Gwen Wynne, an adult COLAGEr, who has created a beautiful narrative film based on her own experiences with her father and his romantic partner's difficulties coming out to her and her sister in the 1970s.

The exciting ensemble cast feature talents including Susan Anspach (Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam); Adam Pascal (Rent); Tate Donovan (The O.C., Damages); Stacey Dash, (Clueless); Josh Peck (The Wackness, Drake & Josh); and James Sikking (Ordinary People, Hill Street Blues).

Shot on location and set in the early 1970's Cape Cod, American Primitive addresses the conflicting issue of place of family and same-sex relationships in our culture. This seminal issue is still with us today - witness the heated demonstrations that have taken place all over the U.S. since the November 4 elections protesting laws prohibiting same-sex marriages.

Told mostly through the eyes of high school student Madeline who, along with her widower father, Harry, and younger sister, move to the Cape. Madeline's emotional journey parallels the country's loss of innocence and a time period when American society was redefining its national identity as well as personal views. Gender and sexual identity preoccupied the citizens of America. Like many in the country, Madeline and Harry, daughter and father, find themselves tackling ideas of sex and identity - topics that seemed to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the early 70s but were actually still taboo in both traditional familial and personal settings.

Ms. Wynne reflected, "I wrote American Primitive because I had never seen or heard a story about growing up in a gay household from a teenage girl's perspective. With the film I tried to create a story that ultimately underscores the complex meaning of love and friendship and family. I'm hoping the film will shed light on a very emotional issue that so many people in our country shroud in silence and shame."

The film will be making its premiere on the festival circuit in 2009. To learn more about the movie visit: http://www.americanprimitivemovie.com/

This film is not yet rated but is most appropriate for youth (ages 11/12 and up) and adult audiences.