About This Film
Festival Year: 2016
Run Time: 20 Minutes
Film Type: Short
Animated: No
Countr(ies): Canada, USA
Language: English
English Subtitles: No
Captions: None
Film Overview
Reinventing the Reel gives an overview of the Hollywood treatment of LGBT portrayals in film, how it has changed, and why is important to continue to change. This brief history is followed by an inside look into independent filmmakers in their process of breaking the chain of that negative history on a smaller scale (with the help of tools like crowd funding). They create films, in part, hoping that one day it will be more common in bigger Hollywood films to see more characters that happen to be gay rather than that be their reason for existing in the film's storyline.
