Red without Blue

An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RED WITHOUT BLUE follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farley's struggle to redefine their family.The twins' early lives were quintessentially all-American: picture-perfect holidays, supportive parents who cheered them on every step of the way. By the time they were 14, their parents had divorced, they had come out as gay, and a joint suicide attempt precipitated a forced separation of Mark and Alex for two and half years.

Through candid and extensive interviews with the twins and their family, RED WITHOUT BLUE recounts these troubled times, interweaving the twins' difficult past with their efforts to find themselves in the present. The film follows the painful steps of Clair's transition, including electrolysis and the difficult decision to proceed with bottom surgery.

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Awards:

• Slamdance Film Festival, Audience Award—Best Documentary Feature (2007)
• Frameline: The San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature—The $10,000 Michael J. Burg Documentary Jury Award (2007)
• Inside Out, Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Best Documentary Feature—Audience Award (2007)
• Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature—Jury Award (2007)
• Silverlake Film Festival, Festival Directors Award (2007)
• Athens International Film And Video Festival, Best Documentary Feature—1st Place (2007)

• The Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Hamburg International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• ImageOUT, Rochester, NY
• Kalamazoo, Coming Out Proud Film Festival
• Lisboa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival
• QueerDOC Film Festival
• Vancouver Queer Film Festival
• Pride Pictures, Waterloo, Ontario
• Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Perth Revelation International Film Festival
• Jerusalem International Film Festival
• Queer Takes, Walker Art Center
• Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
• Provincetown International Film Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• NewFest: The New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival
• Inside Out, Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
• Out Takes Festival, New Zealand
• Silver Lake Film Festival
• Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Birmingham SHOUT
• Athens International Film and Video Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Wingspan, Reel Pride Series, Tucson, Arizona
• Crossroads Film Festival
• Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
• Melbourne Queer Film Festival
• Slamdance Film Festival

Filmmaker Bios:
Brooke Sebold is an editor and producer in San Francisco, CA, where she has worked on award winning documentaries screening in museums and festivals around the world. She currently works as a producer/editor in the vanguard journalism department of Current TV, Al Gore's cable television station dedicated to telling honest and compelling stories by and for young people.

Benita Sills has been working in the documentary film industry for four years in a variety of supportive roles, including production assistant, associate producer, post-production coordinator, distribution assistant, and assistant editor. She has worked with several established Bay Area documentary filmmakers, gaining extensive exposure to current trends in documentary and learning from the successful techniques of award-winning directors.

After spending two years as a production coordinator for Merchant Ivory in New York, Todd Sills is looking forward to his first full-length documentary project in the Bay Area. Growing up in Morocco and majoring in Religion and Poetry at Northwestern University, Todd has brought a real diversity of perspective to the project. Currently, he is the head Avid editor for Access Video in Berkeley, California. He also works as an assistant editor on KQED's Spark* and is helping ITVS prepare for the 2005 Input Conference.

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RED WITHOUT BLUE (2007) 77min., color, digital video. Directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, & Todd Sills.