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| Tom Pearson asks people on the streets of Toronto what they think of same sex marriage for the doc Thin Pink Line |
Sometimes during the course of producing a live show you begin to feel as if you should be documenting it and to that end, after being hired to produce "
The Same Sex Show", I found the elements were very powerful and knew that this being
a time in history that will be examined and an issue with a long shelf life - same sex marriage that is - that this was worth capturing and I did, putting together a documentary crew from graduating film students resulting in
22 powerful hours of goods sitting on my shelf unedited as yet!!
During the height of the
same sex marriage controversy, as it made it's
way through the
courtrooms to finally be made officially legal nationally, TP was
there on several fronts....firstly in 2005
TPE produced the worlds 1st
ever international Same Sex & Wedding Show - the 1st of its kind anywhere in the
world at Canada's largest Metro Convention Centre!
During the process of
putting the consumer show together, TPE recognized the controversy
involved, indeed including some in the wedding industry as well as
the media and thus rounded up a documentary crew to capture as much as
possible. As a result
TP has recorded 22hours of raw documentary footage from the period including
protests at queens park, religious protesters, and people on the street as well as interviewed members of the gay community and wedding/same sex industry people dying to
get made into a feature and held a show with that featured entertainment and speakers from the who's who of gay, lesbian, and cross gender communities. Hear more in our
short pitch video.
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| Rocker Carol Pope 'blesses" Ian Taylor & George Olds' wedding certificate for the Same Sex Wedding Show |
Timing for this documentary movie to be produced is fantastic now since the
HARPER
government has recently tried to have same sex weddings from those from
other countries called not legal - meaning
the contest we ran that
brought couples to Canada from other countries to marry at our
show....MAY NOT BE LEGAL!? Wow...only adds to the
value of our future
film but can we be held liable for these couples' distress should the
feds' position prevail? And what
of those couples? How must they feel perhaps being gyped of their marriages? Meantime
TPE Prodcutions.com will be releasing a Short -
Thin Pink
Line - a
10 minutes snapshot of the 22 hours of footage we have.... coming up in Feb for a
Valentines Day release! Stay
tuned!
This is a project that begs to be completed and help show Harper he's got a tough road to hoe!
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| Stellar Hall in Newmarket now has banquet facilities and s.s. wedding packages |
In Other related News ... You can get involved in the Producing of A Thin Pink Line's feature film through INDIEGOGO!
Watch for the short, Thin Pink Line, to show in York Region Ontario for the YR Media Playrs festival in 2015.
Later..Tom
