LAVENDER LIMELIGHT: LESBIANS IN FILM features interviews with seven prominent women directors who offer refreshing and amusing insights into the world of independent filmmaking.
Filmmaker Marc Mauceri gives his subjects the floor, adding very little extemporaneous footage or expository narration. His interview subjects--Jennie Livingston, Rose Troche, Monika Treut, Maria Maggenti, Su Friedrich, Heather Lyn MacDonald and Cheryl Dunye--discuss their varying backgrounds, and
the tenuous and often amusing way they came into independent filmmaking. Other topics covered include the blessings and burdens of being known as a "lesbian filmmaker"; how a lesbian identity c...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
57 mins