In 1984, Debra Chasnoff made her first documentary film, Choosing Children, which profiled several lesbian moms who had kids after coming out—a radical idea at the time. The film, co-directed and co-produced with Kim Klausner, her children’s other mom, was selected in 2007 as one of two films that the Legacy Project, a program of […]
Now available for streaming to your computer: many of the the award-winning films about diversity from Groundspark and Academy Award-winning director Debra Chasnoff. (Here’s my interview with Chasnoff about It’s STILL Elementary, her documentary about teaching LGBT inclusion in schools.) The films have been available for home use on DVD’s that run $30-50 each. A
The award-winning film about teaching LGBT inclusion in schools, It’s STILL Elementary, is having its national television premiere this Saturday, March 7, on LOGO at 8 p.m. EST. I interviewed Academy Award-winning director Debra Chasnoff in 2007 about the film. She also spoke about her film That’s a Family, which caused a brouhaha in Evesham,
I wrote last fall of the DVD release of It’s Elementary, a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Debra Chasnoff that shows how various teachers have addressed LGBT awareness in the classroom. The DVD also includes a companion piece, It’s STILL Elementary, which looks at why the film was made, people’s response, and the situation today.
