Bi The Way

Director: Brittany Blockman & Josephine Decker
Cast: Josh Caouette, Jonathan Caouette, David Chapman, Lisa Diamond, Helen Fisher, Michael Musto, Pamela Moore, Dan Savage, Tahj, Taryn Wayne
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 85 minutes
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screening in: Special Screenings

Screening Times

9:00 PM, Saturday March 8th - Alamo Lamar 1
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7:00 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Dobie
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6:30 PM, Thursday March 13th - Dobie
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Synopsis:
Journeying through the changing sexual landscape of America, BI THE WAY investigates the latest scientific reports and social opinions on bisexuality, while following five members of the emerging "whatevergeneration"Ñ teens and twenty-somethings who seem to be ushering in awhole new sexual revolution.

Director's Bio:
BRITTANY BLOCKMAN Ð Director and ProducerBrittany Blockman is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and soon-to-be medical student. She graduated from Princeton University in 2003, where she received highest honors in anthropology and was awarded the senior thesis prize. Her documentary on a San Francisco AIDS hospice (THE LOOKING GLASS HOUSE) won best documentary at the 2004 Southern Independent Film Festival and at the 2003 Memphis Film Festival. Brittany received her masters in medical anthropology at Harvard University in 2004 and then began the MFA program in film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She will begin directing a documentary in Southeast Asia in 2008 and will embark on an MD/MPH program at Tulane Medical School in the fall.

JOSEPHINE DECKER Ð Director and ProducerJosephine Decker directs for film, television and theater. After graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 2003, she worked with ABC and Lightworks to produce documentaries for A&E, The Biography Channel, The Hallmark Channel and The Discovery Times Channel. Her theater work has involved collaborations with Philadelphia-based Pig Iron Theatre Company and with experimental hub St. Marks Church in the Bowery. She just completed her first children's novel An Emily And The Darkness and will spend her spring directing a music video and in pre-production on an animated documentary.

MARTHA SHANE Ð Co-Director and ProducerMartha Shane graduated from Wesleyan University's prestigious film program in 2005, where she produced several short films. She worked as a teaching apprentice in intellectual history classes, while also co-founding Jar, a literary arts magazine. Following graduation, she apprenticed herself to editor Yana Gorskaya and studied the craft of storytelling in film. At age 22, Martha threw herself into the all-consuming life of documentary filmmaking and hasn't looked back since. She is a published fiction writer and a classical pianist, and will begin a documentary project in Southeast Asia in 2008.