LGBT projects have done pretty well at Sundance. A couple of days ago we reported that Burger picked up the Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting at the Sundance Film Festival in the short filmmaking categories. Now in the feature categories, The Case Against 8, about gay marriage in California, has won the Best Documentary Direction prize.
The film goes deep inside the court cases that sought to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage following the ballot measure Proposition 8 was enacted. The film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the US Supreme Court, which eventually resulted in equal marriage returning to California.
It was slightly coming full circle for directors Ben Cotner and Ryan White, as they met at Sundance and have been putting the movie together ever since. They thanked the “incredibly inspiring people we were able to follow around for five years.”
The award-winning movie will screen on HBO in the US this June.
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