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THE BRANDON TEENA STORY

10TH ANNIVERSARY DVD RELEASED JUNE 2008

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 Fall 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 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.

AWARDS INCLUDE: NOMINATED FOR A 2000 EMMMY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST; TEDDY AWARD AND AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL; CANADIAN FILM BOARD AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENARY, VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; TIME OF HISTORY JURY AWARD FOR BEST FILM, VALLODOLID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; GRAND JURY AWARD FOR BEST FILM, GREAT PLAINS FILM FESTIVAL .

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