The Year We Thought About Love
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Associate Producer, Pam Chamberlain
- January 31, 2015 (Santa Barbara Film Festival)
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| Directed by | Ellen Brodsky |
| Produced by | Ellen Brodsky Associate Producer, Pam Chamberlain |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
The Year We Thought About Love is a 2015 feature-length documentary film about the LGBTQ theater group, True Colors: OUT Youth Theater, directed by Ellen Brodsky.[1] As of December 2015, the film has been seen in 21 states and 6 countries[2] with a DVD available to community groups, public libraries, community colleges, and colleges and universities.
The film focuses on a Boston-based group of LGBTQ youth of color band together and dare to be 'out' on stage about their lives and their loves. The cast of True Colors: OUT Youth Theater[3] transforms their struggles into performance for social change. The film's cast members include a transgender teenager, Alyssa, who is kicked out of her home; a devout Christian, Chi, who challenges his church's homophobia; and a genderqueer individual, Ayden, who likes to wear masculine clothing, even as they model dresses on the runway. After the Boston Marathon bombs explode yards from their rehearsal space, the troupe becomes even more determined to share their stories of love to help their city heal.[4]
Production notes
The Year We Thought About Love was filmed in Boston and premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 31, 2015.