Queerscreen – Born This Way
Born This Way is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming, a moving documentary that offers an intensely personal insight into day-to-day life for some in modern Africa.
Eastside FM and Groovescooter invite you to the first ever Sydney screening of this poignant but unsettling portrait of lesbian and gay people in Central Africa. Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann‘s film about Cameroon’s queer underground spotlights a community dealing with some of the harshest laws against homsexuality anywhere in the world. Shot in guerilla style, we meet people like Gertrude and Cedric, alongside workers at a clandestine safe-house and human rights lawyer and advocate, Alice.
Alice, one of the subjects of the documentary
“Born this way is an enlightening and touching look at how ignorance and homophobia harm people’s lives everywhere.” – Sound On Site
“…lifts documentary into art” – Huffington Post
Winner Best Documentary 2013, L.A.’s Outfest
BORN THIS WAY
6.30PM Saturday 22 February 2014
Event Cinemas, George Street, Sydney
Co-presented by Groovescooter and Eastside FM
in association with Queer Screen, Event Cinemas and LA Tourism for the 2014 Mardi Gras Film Festival