Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Gen Silent « Rainbow Senior Living

Gen Silent « Rainbow Senior Living: "Gen Silent pinpoints one major source of anxiety for GLBT elders as a deeply ingrained distrust of institutions, given that the medial establishment pathologized gays for so long and used such barbaric treatments on them in attempts to ...


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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Film Subject: " I just finished writing a letter to Michelle Obama"

Lawrence Johnson featured in the documentary, Gen Silent

I just finished writing a letter to Michelle Obama telling her all about, "Gen Silent," and sending her the "Gen Silent" website.
I am spreading the word wherever I can. Who knows, The First Lady just may respond!
We have to dream bigger dreams, and I have the audacity to Hope.
Love,
Lawrence Johnson

Monday, May 31, 2010

Big month in store for new documentary

MA Statehouse is one of the backgrounds that Gen Silent's closing credits to donors plays over.
This month we screen the film to lawmakers inside.

This Friday, June 4th, Gen Silent screens at one of the world's most important LGBT film festivals, New Fest in New York. Details

After "taking a few meetings". I head back to Boston for a screening of the film at the Massachusetts State House to help raise lawmaker awareness of LGBT aging issues (that is even more exciting to me than NewFest).

On June 17th and 19th Gen Silent screens at the Provincetown International Film Festival and they are an organized, classy bunch. Good festival!

In between all that I will be doing a lot of quiet reflection on how to manage all the opportunities to help people that this film is creating.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

First Laurel Leaves for Gen Silent

Kingpin naps on the growing stack of festival submission forms


Multi-tasking is an understatement. I've been catching up on a hundred work things as I slowly output and re-output the latest edition of our documentary on LGBT Aging, Gen Silent.

Its world premiere earlier this month at the Boston LGBT Film Festival was very encouraging (two sold out shows and three standing ovations). Now comes the 10% of finishing left:
technical correction and content changes based on audience feedback.

The computer below makes laurel leaves while the one above renders out the film

In between the rendering (computer processing video) is when I try to get out the news that we have a good film on our hands. Things like making the graphic of those little laurel leaves for the film festivals we are accepted in: NewFest, Provincetown Intl. Film Festival, NCGLFF.

I'm looking forward to soon having help with all these things. It will all depend on our fundraising.