VINTAGE - Families of Value is a fantasy documentary film which intimately explores three African-American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay male siblings - two or more in the same family.
Directed by Thomas Allen HARRIS
72 minutes, 1995, Color
Awards:
Best Documentary Video, 20th Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival,1996
Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1996
Awarded Best Documentary by the 1996 Atlanta International Film Festival and a Golden Gate by the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival, this lyrical and impressionistic film, blends intimate and sometimes painful conversations between family members, with dramatic re-creations, verit* footage, performance, audio visual collage and archival photos and films to sketch a provocative tableau of three modern black families negotiating sexuality and identity.