"UNTIL"

SYNOPSIS: PRO, a female college-student, seeks her first loving romantic relationship with a woman, and ends up in a relationship with her best friend, HAILEY, until... She must decide how to overcome fear, secrecy, and the (real and imaginary) gaze of others in order to obtain the loving relationship she has always craved.

THANK YOU
for your contribution

Nikki Young
Nicole Miller
Deepali Gokhale
Josh Noblitt
Carlton Mackie
Kyndra Frazier
Erica Wallace
Phoebe Brown
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Yolanda DeGrange
Sokari
Albert Outarra
Amber Dixon
Ben Champion
Britt Dunn
R. Michael Rhoades
Georgia State Univ.
-- @ GSU --
Housing
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DAEL

Your contributions of $5 to $500 make it possible for us to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to make "UNTIL" film.

- Thank You

Fiction Filmmaking, like Queer Renaissance, is totally a collaborative art. So, I/We are excited about meeting with potential PAs for “UNTIL”. Shooting in the “A” from November 13-18th. If you are interested please contact us and/or stay tuned for more info. Our goal is to push Atlanta beyond the "Black Hollywood" title and become the "Progressive & Queer Hollywood" with a radical shift from old models and norms.

Georgia is quickly becoming a destination location for filmmaking in the U.S. We are nipping at the heels of NY. As Queer Renaissance (www.queerrenaissance.com) seeks to move from infancy to full toddler-hood, we have to recruit a a number of people to be Sponsors, Producers, PAs, Crew and Cast. Join with QRR so that together we can create the diverse world of media we want to see.

"UNTIL"
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

There are those, bright and visible among us, who believe in a Queer Renaissance <http://www.queerrenaissance.com/> ...that we can make the world anew by loving transformation with our every action, by building our wishes into place to live, by writing our dreams in deep red pen on every wall that faces us. There are those among us who thread the present into 50 ways to reimagine life at once, teasing the future with incrementally wilder ways to be present. Queer black filmmaker, poet, thinker Julia R. Wallace is one of those.

         I'm a fan.  (Can you tell?)
  
         As an outgrowth of the collaborative online community transformation venture Queer Renaissance (www.queerrenaissance.com), <http://www.queerrenaissance.com/>  and a compelling poetic filmic vision, Julia Wallace is creating Until <http://www.queerrenaissance.com/Films/until.htm> , a poem crystallized into a short experimental narrative film about friendship, love, secrecy, shame and the possibility of freedom. And I want you to know about it. Because I love you.

After hearing the poem and reading the screenplay for Until I already have a crush on the main character. Pro, a quiet loving earnest college student wants the best for her best friend Hailey. And she's thrilled and gratified when after facing rejection from some guy on campus, Hailey wants her.   As always though, it gets complicated when the lights turn on. What will it take for each woman to be true to herself in private and in public?

Y'all, reading this screenplay makes me want to be a better braver person. It scrapes up those moments when we choose our fears over each other, and when we choose each other out of fear...it makes me want to build altars and monuments to those public hand holdings and private yeses that risk everything except our integrity. And to those moments when we almost get there.

 There should be a billion films like this, but there aren't, and Julia and the crew are shooting next weekend in Atlanta so go here <http://www.queerrenaissance.com/Films/until.htm>  to find out more about Until and how you can support that necessary process of making our love, our questions, our hope and our process visible and tangible.

-- Check out Alexis Pauline Gumbs at these online hotspots:

http://www.brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com
http://www.thatlittleblackbook.blogspot.com
http://www.atthekitchentable.blogspot.com
http://www.loveproduction.wordpress.com