Love Free or Die
Dir: Macky Alston
13:50 NFT1 • USA: 88 min • Reveal Productions • 2011
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Bishop Jean Robinson is openly gay, and rightly described in the BFI’s Festival Guide as “a thorn in the side of the Church”. This documentary film is a portrait of his struggles to represent LGBT Christians. The film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

Pop duo Fingersnap – David McAlmont and Guy Davies – will perform ‘The Bishop of New Hampshire’ to Gene Robinson at the screening.

Vito
Dir: Jeffrey Schwarz
18:20 NFT1 • USA: 93 min • Automat Pictures • 2011
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Vito Russo, author of the pioneering book The Celluloid Closet (1981), was an activist as well as a film historian. This documentary looks at his work on cinema, as well as his passionate and influential activism from the early 1970s onward. Russo was one of the founding fathers of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement and a co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He is an essential figure in the struggle for LGBT rights.