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LGBT Film Fest Opening Night – From This Day Forward
October 15, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$10A documentary about a transgender parent and the transformational capacities of love and understanding, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD is a moving portrayal of a Midwest family coping with one of the most intimate of transformations.
When filmmaker Sharon Shattuck’s father came out as transgender and changed her name to Trisha, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. Her father’s transition to female was difficult for her straight-identified mother, Marcia, to accept, but her parents stayed together.
As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon’s wedding, she, and her film, seek a deeper understanding of how her parents’ marriage survived the radical changes that threatened to tear them apart.
Mirroring the home movies you hold close, Shattuck’s film is at times funny (Dad, for instance, is a cut-up) and tender. The film, however probing, is always delicately observed, the film emotionally winning and never sensational. The family on display here is, like most, a complicated collection of folk, Mom a pathologist, Dad a painter whose abstract canvases expressionistically explore her transition. And like the family the film portrays, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD is singularly remarkable: upfront and honest, open and generous, accepting and — reflexively, automatically — loving.
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students, Seniors.
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The 30th Annual Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival is presented by the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts.
The Festival is made possible thanks to generous support from Joseph R. Pabst, the Cream City Foundation, Wisconsin Gazette, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, the Greater Milwaukee Foundations’ Eldon E. Murray Fund and Richard Kaul Fund, Bronze Optical, and Jack H. Smith of Shorewest Realtors, and many local businesses, campus and community partners, and individuals.