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Contents:

• GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH
• IN GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH, ACCEPTANCE COM WH A SONG
• 'GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH': TRIBE REVIEW
• ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ TRAILER: MTV’S DOCUMENTARY OSR CONTENR — EXCLIVE
• WHY AIRBNB PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH,’ ITS FIRST-EVER FILM (EXCLUSIVE)
• FILM REVIEW: ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’
• SHEILA NEVS’ MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS NABS ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’
• ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’: FILM REVIEW | TRIBE 2019
• AIRBNB-PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY FILM GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH TO PREMIERE AT TRIBE FILM FTIVAL ON APRIL 29
• ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ TRAILER: SF GAY MEN’S CHOS LOOKS TO BRG UNY AND PEACE TO DEEP SOUTH IN TRIBE DOCU
• ‘PL ONE,’ ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ W TRIBE AUDIENCE AWARDS

GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH

USA | 100 MINUTES | English |Documentary, Drama, LGBTQIA, Mic, PolicsTo nont a rurgence of fah-based anti-LGBTQ laws brought about the Tmp era, Conductor Tim Seelig leads 300 sgers of the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos on a b tour of the ep south, showsg fe mic, nontg polil and relig tolerance, and challengg his own troubled past wh the church. After the Premiere Screeng: a special performance by The San Francis Gay Men's Partnership wh:. Gay Chos Deep South is his feature but.

DirectorDavid Charl RodriguProducerBud Johnston, Jse MossScreenwrerDavid Charl Rodrigu, Jeff GilbertCematographerAdam HobbsExecutive ProducerJam Goo, Tony Högqvist Associate ProducerFreddie Whman, Harrison Watks Art Director Melda Gorham Addnal PhotographyThorsten Thielow Assistant EdorLe WillisConsultg ProducerRachel Holbrook, Jenny GaddCastThe San Francis Gay Men's Chos, Oakland Interfah Gospel Choir, Dr. Director David Charl Rodrigu’s Gay Chos Deep South, which premiered at the Tribe Film Ftival New York Cy on Monday, follows 300 sgers the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos as they embarked on a tour of the Deep South 2017. )If battlg prejudice and homophobia through song seems like a fanciful ia, the documentary is well aware of s lofty goal, which simply down to a missn of helpg everybody get along.

In Gay Chos Deep South, the chos partners wh the Oakland Interfah Gospel Choir to brg performanc across the U.

IN GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH, ACCEPTANCE COM WH A SONG

One sger, the midst of transng durg the tour, wonrs if they “belong” a group of mostly cis gay men. In the end, a more progrsive pastor om the church wel him back wh open arms, though the doc don’t avoid those who didn’t; there are many church that reject his requts to perform their venu along the the ultimate star of Gay Chos Deep South is the sgg. One n’t help but see the symbolism there: the straights and the Catholics and the gays all joyfully sgg as one.

It’s hopefully a look to the future—wh gay-marriage rights, among other rights, unr threat of beg overturned, is by far not a realy yet—but, for now, ’s a sentiment that’s worth beltg out as loud as you Courty of Tribe Film Ftival. The San Francis Gay Men’s choir sgs a msage of tolerance on a tour of Ameri’s Southern stat. Director David Charl Rodrigu highlights the ongog stggl of Ameri’s LGBTQ+ muny not via the ual avenue of impassned talkg heads and vlent nontatn, but by followg the San Francis Gay Men’s Choir (SFGMC) as they embark on a sgg tour of the ep South followg the divisive 2016 electn.

'GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH': TRIBE REVIEW

Succsfully harnsg the power of both mic and msage, documentary Gay Chos Deep South draws s strength not only om s subject, but also the effective way which prents s arguments. While jos an ever-growg pantheon of Tmp-era prott documentari, Gay Chos Deep South is engagg and lourful enough to ronate after s Tribe but.

Ashle, who is mid-way through transng om male to female, rells how her entire ngregatn were enuraged to “pray the gay away” when she was young. It prov to be a rocky road om the rabow-flagged liberal streets of San Francis to home-spun plac like Jackson, Mississippi, or Selma, Alabama, where, not gay Alabama ngrswoman Patricia Todd, “bibl are more important than the nstutn.

‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ TRAILER: MTV’S DOCUMENTARY OSR CONTENR — EXCLIVE

A young woman rells how her grandparents burnt her gay pri flag on their ont porch. They say mic is the only ternatnal language, and the Amerin South may as well be another untry to many gay people. In “Gay Chos Deep South, ” director David Charl Rodrigu follows the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos throughout an emotnal tour of the Southern Uned Stat.

The film is the first Osr ntenr for powerhoe producer and former HBO executive Sheila Nevs her posn as head of MTV Documentary Films, and she is g out strong wh “Gay Chos Deep South.

WHY AIRBNB PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH,’ ITS FIRST-EVER FILM (EXCLUSIVE)

Led by Gay Chos Conductor Dr. “Gay Chos Deep South” world premiered at this year’s Tribe Film Ftival, where won the Audience Award for Bt Documentary. “Gay Chos Deep South” opens theaters on November 1.

FILM REVIEW: ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’

The latt player to h the film-ftival circu may be a b unexpected: Airbnb, the travel-acmodatns bookg marketplace, veloped, fanced and produced documentary film “Gay Chos Deep South, ” set to premiere at the 2019 Tribe Film Ftival on April 29. Directed by David Charl Rodrigu, “Gay Chos Deep South” follows the 300-member San Francis Gay Men’s Chos on a 10-day tour across the Southeastern U.

“Gay Chos Deep South” follows the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos, led by nductor Tim Seelig, on their Lavenr Pen Tour 2017, which they embarked on rponse to a wave of discrimatory anti-LGBTQ laws Southern stat and the divisive 2016 U. The al me together after Rodrigu reached out to Goo about the prospect of workg together on a documentary about the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos tour.

SHEILA NEVS’ MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS NABS ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’

Followg the 100-mute film’s April 29 premiere at the Tribe Film Ftival, members of the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos are schled to perform. “Gay Chos Deep South” also is currently schled to screen at three other fts: Reel Out Charlotte North Carola (April 28-May 5); QDoc Queer Documentary Film Ftival Portland, Ore.

Goo cled to say how much Airbnb spent on “Gay Chos Deep South. Watch the trailer for “Gay Chos Deep South”:. Never unrtimate the power of mic to brg people together, even when the parti qutn are eply nservative Southern Christians and the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos.

‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’: FILM REVIEW | TRIBE 2019

In rponse to a rise h anti-LGBT bigotry, the out-and-proud California choir planned a seri of ncerts across five of the stat wh the harsht laws agast homosexuals.

Neher the tour nor the Airbnb-backed, “Love thy neighbor”-themed “Gay Chos Deep South” doc that follows them n fully reverse the discrimatn and divisivens beg stirred up polics today, but both are powerful tools bridgg the prejudice gap. Turns out, the SFGMC went wh the somewhat patronizg goal of enlighteng Southerners via s Lavenr Pen Tour (named after the pen, a gift om Harvey Milk, wh which San Francis mayor Gee Mosne signed a gay rights bill to law four s earlier).

AIRBNB-PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY FILM GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH TO PREMIERE AT TRIBE FILM FTIVAL ON APRIL 29

Slick and a ltle simplistic at tim, “Gay Chos Deep South” mols self on the shape and stcture of realy-TV petn shows, neatly settg up and payg off certa emotnal suatns along the way.

‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ TRAILER: SF GAY MEN’S CHOS LOOKS TO BRG UNY AND PEACE TO DEEP SOUTH IN TRIBE DOCU

Such gay-by-associatn assumptns no doubt expla why several alli feel the need to clare their heterosexualy on mera, and illtrate how ep the homophobia often ns the South. And yet, wh s optimistic, group-hug mentaly, “Gay Chos Deep South” nveys how much thgs have changed sce many opprsed ex-Southerners fled for havens such as San Francis.

‘PL ONE,’ ‘GAY CHOS DEEP SOUTH’ W TRIBE AUDIENCE AWARDS

Gay Chos Deep South.

DOCUMENTARY TO MAKE SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE AT FRAMELINE FILM FESTIVAL SUNDAY, JUNE 30SAN FRANCISCO (May 7, 2019)—The San Francis Gay Men’s Chos (SFGMC)—unr the learship of Dr. Timothy Seelig, Artistic Director and Christopher Verdugo, Executive Director—announced today that “Gay Chos Deep South, ” the documentary chroniclg SFGMC’s life-changg Lavenr Pen Tour through five southern stat the fall of 2017, is the recipient of the Audience Award at the prtig Tribe Film Ftival followg s world premiere on Monday, April 29.

“The tour of self was a succs, but now havg ‘Gay Chos Deep South’ be named ‘the award-wng’ fan-favore at Tribe is simply the thrill of a lifetime. ”Amy Award-wng producer Bce Cohen (SFGMC’s Unbreakable, Big Fish, Milk, Amerin Bety, Silver Lgs Playbook), says: “Hearts and mds change lerally before your very ey as the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos go on a brave and emotnal journey out of their fort zone the powerful and spirg ‘Gay Chos Deep South. ”In addn to the Tribe and Framele ftivals, Gay Chos Deep South is also featured at the followg ftivals:QDoc Portland Queer Documentary Film Ftival, Portland, OR (May 2)Hells Half Mile Film & Mic Ftival, Bay Cy, MI (May 3)Montclair Film Ftival, Montclair, NJ (May 5)Reel Out Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (May 5)Pk Apple Filmftival, Zurich, Swzerland (May 7)NorthwtFt, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (May 10)Mendoco Film Ftival, Mendoco, CA (June 1)Up next, members of the Chos will prent the 8th annual Dragathon fundraisg event, Dragathon 3000: Queens Space, on Saturday, May 11, 2019 om 6 p.

Proceeds benef Ryan's Fund: The San Francis Gay Men's Chos Fancial Assistance Network, which assists members wh fundamental expens cludg performance attire and tour and travel sts.