Wingspan is pleased to announce a benefit premiere of Hannah Free at the Loft on March 30, 2010. The $10.00 admission ticket will go directly to Wingspan.
We are now taking orders for business card sized ads in the program to be distributed at the event.
Hannah Free is an independent feature film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home. Sharon Gless stars in the title role.
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial.
Executive Producers Tracy Baim and Sharon Zurek, director Wendy Jo Carlton and screenwriter Claudia Allen bring a wealth of talent to create this beautiful and realistic love story beginning in an era when being gay was simply not allowed in society and ending in contemporary times where we see romance lives beyond middle age.
Reviewers are raving about the film, the acting, the narrative and the score.
On Sharon Gless: "Her broad, hammy portrayal of a free-spirited butch lesbian bridling against authority conveys the same punchy heartiness she brought to Debbie Novotny, the mother of a gay son in "Queer as Folk." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Gless, glammed-down and butched-up, delivers a dignified yet vulnerable, heart-tugging performance -- and it's a reminder why we're demanding full federal marriage rights now." - Instinct Magazine
"Cagney lives, and she's as cranky as ever." - LA Weekly
The awards for Hannah Free keep coming:
All proceeds from ticket sales benefit Wingspan.
For more information about the film, see www.hannahfree.com.
For ticket information, call Wingspan at 520-624-1779.
Contact Joyce Bolinger if you would like more information on placing an ad in the program. 520-319-0679
jmbolinger@earthlink.net
Individuals can include ads "In Honor of" or "In Memory of."
