Start Date:
27th February 2012
End Date:
27th February 2012
Start Time:
2.30 pm or 8.00 pm
End Time:
not given
Film: Gen Silent
Venue: The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury
Contact: 01743 249 888 to book tickets or get more information or email: info@rainbowfilmfestival.org.uk
What would you do to survive if youwere old, disabled and ill, afraid of discrimination or abuse?
This film GenSilen is the new LGBT documentary from award-winning directory and documentary film maker Stud Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hid their lives to survive.
As we journey through the challenges thatthese men and women face, we also see reasons for hope as each subject crosses paths with a small but growing group of impassioned professionals trying to wake up the long-term care and healthcare services to their plight. There are two performances, 2.30 and 8.00 p, and the 2.30 performance is followed by a Q&A Panel
(see poster for details – click here)
survive.
They put a face on what experts in the film call an
epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender seniors so
afraid of discrimination, or worse, in long-term/health care
that many go back into the closet. And, their surprising
decisions are captured through intimate access to their
day-to-day lives over the course of a year in Boston,
Massachusetts.
As we journey through the challenges that these men and
women face, we also see reasons for hope as each
subject crosses paths with a small but growing group of
impassioned professionals trying to wake up the long-term
care and healthcare services to their plight
survive.
They put a face on what experts in the film call an
epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender seniors so
afraid of discrimination, or worse, in long-term/health care
that many go back into the closet. And, their surprising
decisions are captured through intimate access to their
day-to-day lives over the course of a year in Boston,
Massachusetts.
As we journey through the challenges that these men and
women face, we also see reasons for hope as each
subject crosses paths with a small but growing group of
impassioned professionals trying to wake up the long-term
care and healthcare services to their plight