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WORD IS OUT

By Peter ADAIR, Mariposa Film Group

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Documentary - Completed 1977

The first feature-length now classic documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2010

Forum

- Year of production
- 1977
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 133 mn
- Director(s)
- Peter ADAIR, Mariposa Film Group
- Synopsis
- Word is Out premiered in 1977 as the first feature-length
  documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay
  filmmakers. Audiences were startled and moved by the
  stories told by the film’s participants. After conducting 140
  interviews, the filmmakers selected twenty-six people of
  various lifestyles, races, ages and backgrounds to tell the
  stories of their lives. The documentary was released in
  theaters around the world and shown on prime-time
  television. It helped untold numbers of people accept
  themselves, their friends and their families, and had an
  impact on American culture.
  Word is Out became an icon of the emerging gay rights
  movement and a landmark in documentary history, but
  time had taken its toll on the existing prints and the film
  was rarely seen. I n honor of its place in our collective
  history, the Outfest Legacy Project and UCLA Film &
  Television Archive restored Word is Out with the generous
  contribution of the David Bohnett Foundation, creating
  a high-definition video for this DVD premiere. Ripe for
  rediscovery, the film is at once a record of past struggles,
  an occasion for reflecting on how far we still have to go,
  and a masterpiece of the documentary form. V iewers will
  be charmed, touched and perhaps galvanized to action by
  the film’s emotionally breathtaking blend of candor, humor, love and humor.

WORD IS OUT

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