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KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST Documentary Screens Monday at QFest St. Louis
QFest St. Louis which begins this weekend, will screen the documentary KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST at 7:30pm Monday April 28th.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, MO)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary LGBTQ-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST screens at 7:30pm Monday April 28th
The troubled-teen industry is a billion-dollar, worldwide business enterprise in dozens of countries. KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST tells the shocking stories of American teenagers who were taken from their homes and shipped to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Christian behavior-modification program in the Dominican Republic. In making this heart-wrenching documentary, young evangelical filmmaker Kate Logan was granted unprecedented access inside the controversial program. Although many of the students were suffering from emotional or behavioral issues at home, Logan finds that a number of the teens were sent to the program simply for being gay, with the hope that this rigorous ordeal would “pray away the gay.” Logan’s discoveries profoundly change the direction not only of this riveting film but also of her own life and attitudes.
It will be shown with Families Are Forever, a 21-minute short by Vivian Kleiman – Tom and Wendy, devout Mormon parents living in a conservative community, actively promoted California’s Proposition 8 to prevent same-sex marriage until they discovered that their 13-year-old son, Jordon, was gay.
” KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST begs for answers. Perhaps In today’s social climate, religious or not, it will take a community “think tank” to rally round the youth and focus for better understanding of our pan-direction of humankind. KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST is a very provocative documentary.”
A Facebook event page for the screening can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/236916273098945
For a complete schedule of the QFest film’s visit Cinema St. Louis’ QFest page HERE
http://www.cinemastlouis.org/qfest
Contact artistic director Chris Clark for additional details or questions: chris@cinemastlouis.org or 314.289.4152.
Check back here at We Are Movie Geeks for much more coverage of this year’s QFest
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