There's No Place Like Home

There’s No Place Like Home, Fea­ture Indie Doc­u­men­tary, 1999

While I was a busy bee keep­ing up with Stu­dio 650, I was still a film­maker with a video busi­ness to run, and mak­ing a liv­ing doing the crap schlock that you do on the side to do it, but there was a story that I just could not resist doing.

This is an online link to my last doc­u­men­tary film that never made it to dis­tri­b­u­tion, unfor­tu­nately, but was enor­mously pop­u­lar in DC.

And won a very pres­ti­gious film fes­ti­val as Best Doc­u­men­tary Fea­ture that year – in roughcut.

The snobs in New York and Sun­dance didn’t think that gay rights were accept­able sub­jects for films they would pay atten­tion to, much less con­sider for screen­ing and of course film­mak­ing also remains a man’s game.  Dis­trib­u­tors are even worse for that mat­ter and so are polit­i­cal con­sul­tants.  But this is my work and I’m proud of it.  And it helped a lot of peo­ple change their minds about their gay kids, so in the end, it was worth it, which is what com­mu­nity ser­vice is all about in the end, right Mr. I’m so spe­cial I won a Nobel for doing Nothing?

And Mr. I can’t be both­ered to meet with you because you’re a nobody nver­mind you have one hell of a pro­posal (see Work Fair) to put Amer­i­cans back to work because I’d rather give out all the good­ies to my bud­dies on Wall Street so I can get re-elected.  And I keep promis­ing that I’m going to give gays and les­bians equal rights but some­how I just can’t find the time to do it because hey, my golf game needs improv­ing, I need to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan, and I can’t find the time to redress this injus­tice, but do have plenty of excuses to deal with my dodg­ing of the issue, Commander-in-Chief.

But back to the film.

The gay press loved it.

How­ever, the reac­tion from the straight press was even more extra­or­di­nary.  I’d say the White House is just a lit­tle behind the times.  And as hip as Mr. I’m-so-much-smarter-than-everyone-on-the-Planet, cur­rently resid­ing in the White House, likes to believe he is, he’s pretty nean­derthal, not to men­tion BEHIND THE REST OF THE PLANET, on not mov­ing his ass to redress the issue of LGBT equal rights.