Pray away

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Movie
Original title Pray away
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Kristine Stolakis
production Jessica Devaney ,
Anya Rous ,
Kristine Stolakis
music Laura Karpman ,
Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
camera Melissa Langer
cut Carla Gutierrez

Pray Away is a documentary by Kristine Stolakis that was first made available online to Tribeca Film Festival participants from April 15, 2020. The film is about the conversion therapy programs of the religious right in the United States. In the film, those affected who have gone through such a program talk about the damage that has been done to them and countless young people in the LGBT Q community.

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Julie Rodgers is just one of the many homosexuals who went through conversion therapy. As a young woman she had even become a leader of the Christian " Exodus International " movement, which had worked for more than three decades to suppress any desire for the "homosexual lifestyle" of its followers. Rodgers describes how self-loathing was instilled in her during this time and how she believed she was bad / bad as a 16-year-old.

John Paulk, the former president of the board of directors of Exodus International, now lives with his partner in Portland, Oregon and admits that he has lied repeatedly because of his belief that he no longer wanted men. Paulk and his wife Anne featured on the cover of Newsweek as the most famous “formerly homosexual” couple in the world, which made them the faces of the conversion movement.

Randy Thomas and Cantu Schneider had to rebuild their relationships with the LGBT Q community after going through the conversion program .

Conversion therapy

After the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973, the medical establishment largely abandoned these practices. Nonetheless, efforts to convert homosexuals continued, mostly by less respected advisers and religious organizations. Their methods tend to focus on talk therapy, but some also use treatments designed to induce reluctance to result in physical torture, including inducing nausea and vomiting, using electric shocks and ice baths, as well as photos or Videos. Neil J. Young of the Huffington Post cites a study published in early 2018 by UCLA's Williams Institute , according to which approximately 700,000 adults in the United States underwent "conversion therapy" at some point in their lives, half of them lived this experience as a teenager.

Participation in conversion therapies was already a theme in the two 2018 films The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Desiree Akhavan and The Prodigal Son by Joel Edgerton .

production

Directed by Kristine Stolakis , here at the 2016 Montclair Film Festival

Directed by Kristine Stolakis . After five short documentaries in Pray Away , which she made with Multitude Films and funded by the Tribeca Film Institute's Catapult Film Fund and Hartley Film, it is Stolakis' first feature-length film. Stolakis and film editor Carla Gutierrez had a wealth of archive material available. These include television interviews from C-SPAN , a US television broadcaster exclusively reporting on law, government and constitutional justice in the US, recordings from 60 Minutes , The Jerry Springer Show, and a 2013 episode of Our America With Lisa Ling They also used extensive footage from the 1970s that was captured during the annual Exodus conferences, which gathered member churches from around the world.

In mid-April 2020, the film should celebrate its premiere as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic and postponed indefinitely. Nevertheless, selected films were made available online from April 15 to 26, 2020, the festival's original time slot. He was also in a selection of films to be shown at the Telluride Film Festival .

Awards

Tribeca Film Festival 2020

  • Nomination in the Documentary Competition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Rooney: 'Pray Away': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ Neil J. Young: Gay 'Conversion Therapy' In 'Cameron Post', 'Boy Erased' Is Far From A Thing Of The Past. In: Huffington Post, August 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ https://www.awardscircuit.com/tribeca-film-review-pray-away-will-break-your-heart/
  4. ^ Rebecca Rubin: Hugh Jackman, Pete Davidson Movies to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival. In: Variety, March 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ https://www.tribecafilm.com/films/pray-away-2020
  6. ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
  7. ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
  8. ^ Vassilis Economou: The 19th Tribeca Film Festival is postponed. In: cineuropa.org, April 14, 2020.
  9. ↑ Ryan Lattanzio: Telluride Film Festival Reveals 2020 Selections: 'Ammonite', 'Nomadland', Werner Herzog, and More. In: indiewire.com, August 3, 2020.