Bette Bourne : the Movie - A new groundbreaking documentary based on the play, Bette Bourne : A Life in 3 Acts by Mark Ravenhill
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Bette Bourne - the Movie: A groundbreaking new documentary by director Jeremy Jeffs based on Mark Ravenhill's play Bette Bourne: a Life in Three Acts.
We are raising funds on IndieGoGo to tell this important story. JOIN US http://www.indiegogo.com/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie and together let's tell Bette's story.
Ravenhill says “Bette’s led a life with great personal strength and bravery but he’s also been involved in a political and social struggle from which I’ve benefited enormously.”
"Bette Bourne made a huge, positive, pioneering contribution to the Gay Liberation Front and indeed to the whole of the queer rights movement I salute him and look forward to seeing this film." Peter Tatchell
'This looks brilliant! Bette Bourne not only introduced me to a world of people such Quentin Crisp and Boy George, but more importantly, allowed me to introduce myself. We wouldn't be able to be who we are today, or be able to do what we do today if it wasn't for the icon that is Bette Bourne' Art Mitchells Urwin, SOAS student.
Leading director Jeremy Jeffs is working with the acclaimed British playwright Mark Ravenhill to make a film based on his play Bette Bourne: a Life in Three Acts.
For the first time, Bette Bourne tells story of the fight for gay liberation and the real story of the seventies: a decade of near revolution, social change and protest that rocked the establishment and brought us hard won freedoms in gay rights, civil rights and female liberation. Mixing the personal and the political, the film will use key
moments in Bette’s own life to reveal common experiences of gay life and key events that have defined gay rights in the UK and America.
As a well known actor in the early 70's Bette had appeared alongside Sir Ian Mckellan and starred in the famous early cop show Z-Cars but he gave it up to take on the fight for gay rights. Bourne says, 'When people started to talk about arrests and the suicides, of lives wasted, I suddenly felt angry. It was a very quick thing: I looked back over my life to that point and wanted everything to change."
By meeting people - including Peter Tatchell, Stuart Feaher and Andrew Lumsden - who were on the front line, they'll be telling the first hand story of the early days of the Gay Liberation Front, the first Pride marches and also Bourne's ground-breaking Bloolips theatre company.
This will be the first film in nearly 40 years that has looked at the early days of gay rights in the UK and the first to explore the vital work that the Bloolips did in New York, San Francisco and the rest of the USA.
On May 3rd 2011 we launched on IndieGoGo. A platform where we are raising
funds for the documentary. It is where YOU can enable the making of Bette
Bourne: the Movie.
JOIN US at IndieGoGo http://www.indiegogo.com/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie and
together let's tell this important story.
We also have a facebook group, please do join us.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie/203803019650045?ref=ts
The trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIec1L_GdXs
The web-site http://www.bettebournemovie.com/Bette_Bourne_the_movie.html
Here you can find out more about the movie.
We are raising funds on IndieGoGo to tell this important story. JOIN US http://www.indiegogo.com/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie and together let's tell Bette's story.
Ravenhill says “Bette’s led a life with great personal strength and bravery but he’s also been involved in a political and social struggle from which I’ve benefited enormously.”
"Bette Bourne made a huge, positive, pioneering contribution to the Gay Liberation Front and indeed to the whole of the queer rights movement I salute him and look forward to seeing this film." Peter Tatchell
'This looks brilliant! Bette Bourne not only introduced me to a world of people such Quentin Crisp and Boy George, but more importantly, allowed me to introduce myself. We wouldn't be able to be who we are today, or be able to do what we do today if it wasn't for the icon that is Bette Bourne' Art Mitchells Urwin, SOAS student.
Leading director Jeremy Jeffs is working with the acclaimed British playwright Mark Ravenhill to make a film based on his play Bette Bourne: a Life in Three Acts.
For the first time, Bette Bourne tells story of the fight for gay liberation and the real story of the seventies: a decade of near revolution, social change and protest that rocked the establishment and brought us hard won freedoms in gay rights, civil rights and female liberation. Mixing the personal and the political, the film will use key
moments in Bette’s own life to reveal common experiences of gay life and key events that have defined gay rights in the UK and America.
As a well known actor in the early 70's Bette had appeared alongside Sir Ian Mckellan and starred in the famous early cop show Z-Cars but he gave it up to take on the fight for gay rights. Bourne says, 'When people started to talk about arrests and the suicides, of lives wasted, I suddenly felt angry. It was a very quick thing: I looked back over my life to that point and wanted everything to change."
By meeting people - including Peter Tatchell, Stuart Feaher and Andrew Lumsden - who were on the front line, they'll be telling the first hand story of the early days of the Gay Liberation Front, the first Pride marches and also Bourne's ground-breaking Bloolips theatre company.
This will be the first film in nearly 40 years that has looked at the early days of gay rights in the UK and the first to explore the vital work that the Bloolips did in New York, San Francisco and the rest of the USA.
On May 3rd 2011 we launched on IndieGoGo. A platform where we are raising
funds for the documentary. It is where YOU can enable the making of Bette
Bourne: the Movie.
JOIN US at IndieGoGo http://www.indiegogo.com/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie and
together let's tell this important story.
We also have a facebook group, please do join us.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bette-Bourne-the-Movie/203803019650045?ref=ts
The trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIec1L_GdXs
The web-site http://www.bettebournemovie.com/Bette_Bourne_the_movie.html
Here you can find out more about the movie.
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