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Dear Programmers and Bookers,

June is Pride month and this one is special: the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots is June 28. Please consider a run or screening of the newly restored, landmark documentary Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community. It's a is a great opportunity to support the birth of LGBTQ Pride!

Marc Mauceri | First Run Features
marcm@firstrunfeatures.com
212-243-0600 x20

 
Before Stonewall
The Making of a
Gay and Lesbian Community

Newly restored for the 50th
Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots

In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's LGBT community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun.

Before Stonewall pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of surival, love, persecution and resistance experienced by LGBT Americans since the early 1900's. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement, from the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the brave fight for acceptance.

 
"Entertaining and enlightening."  -Los Angeles Times

"Funny, courageous and touching." - Seattle Times

“Intelligent, moving!”  -The New York Times

"You owe it to yourself to see it." - Judith Crist, WOR-TV

Narrated by iconic author Rita Mae Brown

   Groundbreaking interviews with:
Ann Bannon, Martin Duberman, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Gittings,
Harry Hay, Mabel Hampton, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny
Audre Lorde, Richard Bruce Nugent, Jose Sarria
and many more!


Executive Producer: John Scagliotti • Director: Greta Schiller •
Co-Director: Robert Rosenberg
Produced by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti & Greta Schiller
87 minutes, color, 1984
Available on DCP & Blu ray

About the restoration: The 16mm negative was scanned and digitized at Periscope Films in Los Angeles. The file was then color corrected at Edition Salzgeber in Berlin, who created the ProRes and DCP. Director Greta Schiller supervised the process and approved the new ProRes and DCP.
Contact Info

Theatrical / Festival / Screening rights: Marc Mauceri | marcm@firstrunfeatures.com | 212-243-0600 x20


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