Netflix Find Your Voice

I was reading on PlanetOut an article about how celebrities can make us gay, one click led to another (as is usually the case in browsing on the internet) and stumbled upon this article about a lesbian film maker who’s up for a NetFlix competition award. She needs votes to win a $150K production grant, with access to other film making resources. Winning this grant will help her complete the movie.

Here’s the film synopsis lifted from the Pariah website:

Pariah is a coming-of-age drama about a lesbian teenager who unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family.

Set against the kinetic and incongruous social landscape of middle class New York City, Alike vacillates between being a proud and sexually independent woman amongst her openly gay friends and being the feminine, obedient girl that her strict Christian upbringing dictates she be.

Torn by mounting pressure from home, school, and within, the line between her dual personas wears thin with explosive consequences.

Pariah

Already Pariah has been entered  into and won multiple festivals, including Sundance, OutFest, Future Filmmakers, and has received a Rockefeller Grant.

Mostly, thought, she deserves this grant because the message of the movie deals with being both black and being homosexual, following the life of a lesbian who’s out with her friends but her parents have no idea of her secret double life. At any rate, pass along some votes and love for the movie Pariah, and film maker Dee Rees.