Bi the Way (2008) - Movie Trailer

Josh said that he wanted to be a transvestite, but I think he just wanted to wear make up. I said, just be a rock star.

about the film
The iron curtain between gay and straight is crumbling And young filmmakers Brittany and Josephine hit the road to see what people have to say about that. With a lightness of touch, they travel through America, hopping from town to town casually asking questions about sexuality and getting a variety of different answers, almost all of them a lot more fluid than you might expect. What is bisexuality? Is it just a fad? Are you bi for a lifetime? The changing sexual landscape of America shines through a teenage girl who says its a boy one week, and a girl the next, perhaps; a dancer who wants to never say never or an 11 year old boy who just cannot figure out where he wants to stand in terms of his sexuality. There is a view that there is no such thing, and there is of course, another that it is an abomination. Professors, artists, students, writers, biologists, dancers, drive-though employees all have their say. Bi the Way self-consciously avoids black and white answers, asking its audience to draw their own conclusions; the film seems to want nothing more than to be what it is. In doing so, the film faithfully mirrors its subjects -searching, yearning, in-between.

about the director
Born in 1982, Brittany Blockman is an anthropologist, filmmaker and soon-to-be medical student. She graduated from Princeton Universitys Anthropology department in 2003, received her masters in medical anthropology at Harvard University in 2004 and began the MFA program in film at NYUs Tisch School of the Arts. Her first documentary on a San Francisco AIDS Hospice The Looking Glass House (2004) won awards in various Film Festivals.

Josephine Decker directs for film, television and theater. After graduating from Princeton University she worked with ABC and Lightworks to produce documentaries for various channels. She has also written a childrens novel.

festivals
2008 SXSW Film Festival
AFI/Discovery Silverdocs Film Festival

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