In Chelsea McMullan's documentary-musical, My Prairie Home, indie singer Rae Spoon takes us on a playful, meditative and at times melancholic journey. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, Spoon sweetly croons us through their queer and musical coming of age. Interviews, performances and music sequences reveal Spoon's inspiring process of building a life of their own, as a trans person and as a musician.
I’ve lost three kind of advertising campaigns now because the companies say they don’t like my image, but I know that it’s directly related to the films that I put out at Sundance. So you could say that there’s still this kind of homophobia or prejudice against certain kinds of material in mainstream cinema.
The Sundance Film Festival had a couple gay themed movies entered this year. Among them, a documentary on V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and a short film by a gay Korean-American man named Ahn Dol who tried to use his project to come out to his family. I'm not sure what made him think that would be a good idea. He says he did not have it in him to come out to his parents and family but knew they would come watch his movie. Surprise, surprise, his plan did not go as he hoped.
After the credits rolled they said 'Oh, is that it?'. I just started crying because I built up the moment so much, and I knew that they were in denial, that I could have taken the DVD, gone back to my room and they wouldn't have said a thing.
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