| Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | |
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| Directed by | Lynne Fernie Aerlyn Weissman |
| Written by | Lynne Fernie Aerlyn Weissman |
| Produced by | Margaret Pettigrew Ginny Stikeman, Rina Fraticelli |
| Starring | Stephaine Morgenstern, Lynne Adams, Marie-Jo Thério, George Thomas, Lory Wainberg, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Michael Copeland |
| Cinematography | Zoe Dirse |
| Edited by | Denise Beaudoin Cathy Gulkin |
| Music by | Kathryn Moses |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada Women Make Movies |
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Running time | 84 minutes 35 seconds |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a 1992 Canadian hybrid drama-documentary film about Canadian lesbians navigating their sexuality while homosexuality was still criminalized. Interviews with lesbian elders are juxtaposed with a fictional story, shot in fifties melodrama style, of a small-town girl's first night with another woman.[1] It also inserts covers of lesbian pulp fiction. The film presents the stories of lesbians whose desire for community led them on a search for the few public beer parlours or bars that would tolerate openly queer women in the 1950s and 60s in Canada. It was written and directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman and featured author Ann Bannon. It premiered at the 1992 Toronto Festival of Festivals and was released in the United States on 4 August 1993. It was produced by Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada.
In May 2014, the National Film Board of Canada ("NFB") re-released the film in a digitally remastered version.[2]
- ^ Bruce, Jean (2015). Forbidden love. Gerda Cammaer. Vancouver. ISBN 978-1-55152-609-6. OCLC 941134248.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Takeuchi, Craig (15 May 2014). "NFB rereleases Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives". Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 17 May 2014.