Bless Bless Productions Bless Bless ProductionsTHE BRANDON TEENA STORY
BRODADCAST AND SCREENING FORMATS - 88min & 55min, DIGI-BETA - DVD - NTSC & PAL
"The Brandon Teena Story" is a documentary about hatred and homophobia in the heartland of America.The film focuses on the last few weeks of Brandon Teena's life in a small town in Nebraska. When 20 year old Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska in late 1993, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends and a pretty young girlfriend. On Christmas Eve Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of his friends who became enraged when they found out that Brandon was in fact a woman passing as a guy. A week later, on New Year's Eve, the same two men murdered Brandon along with two of his friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip Devine. All were shot twice at a close range and Bradon was stabbed several times as well. The far-reaching effects of ingrained homophobia and misguided loyalty under a veneer of revealing the truth, and how this led to Brandon's destruction are unravelled in this film.
10TH ANNIVERSARY DVD COLLECTOR'S RELEASED BY NEW VIDEO, JUNE 2008
"Riveting and understated," - Stephen Holden, The New York Times -
"Passionate, angry and persuasive," - Sarah Kerr, The New Yorker
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