JULY, 2022 |
Issue 337 |
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Utah Film Center to screen ‘Mama Bears’ at Liberty Park The Utah Film Center sill host an outdoor screening of the documentary “Mama Bears” Friday, July 8 at Liberty Park. “Mama Bears” is an intimate exploration of two “mama bears” — conservative, Christian mothers Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people — and a young lesbian, Tammi Terrell Morris, whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears movement is so vital. Spread across the country but connected through private Facebook groups, they call themselves “mama bears” because while their love is warm and fuzzy, they fight ferociously to make the world kinder and safer for all LGBTQ+ people. Although some may have grown up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, mama bears are willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith
communities to keep their offspring safe — even if it challenges their belief systems and rips their worlds apart. The feature film is preceded by two short films highlighting queer experiences with parenthood from Sundance Institute. “The Saint of Dry Creek,” which showed at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, is about Patrick Haggerty, who was a teenager in rural Dry Creek, Wash., in the late 1950s. Here, he remembers the day he first had a conversation with his father about being gay. “The Little Deputy, which showed at Sundance Film Festival in 2015, is a 9-minute Canadian film directed by Trevor Anderson about him trying to have his photo taken with his father. Doors open at 8 p.m. and movies begin at dusk. RSVP for the free film at utahfilmcenter.org/ event/mama-bears/
Damn These Heels queer film festival slated for October In response to many festival fans saying July is just too filled with events, the Utah Film Center announced they will move the week-long Damn These Heels queer film
festival to October 14–16. The event will take place at the Eccles Black Box Theater . More details will be annouinced at damntheseheels. org as they bocome available.
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