About this project
In 1995, filmmaker Andy Blubaugh—then a curious and lonely fifteen-year-old—began a sexual relationship with Peter, a successful, deeply closeted man who was nearly twice his age. In 2008, Andy revisited this complex relationship in a narrative script, the writing and production of which brought him back in contact with Peter, providing him with the opportunity to examine how their lives had changed in the thirteen years since they met.
The documentary portion features interviews with Dan Savage, school guidance counselors, journalist Nigel Jaquiss and more.
WHAT AM I KICKSTARTING EXACTLY? The Adults in the Room has been invited to screen at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival (San Francisco, CA), the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Out at the Movies LGBT Film Series at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY. We are seeking final funds to transfer our film stock to HD format, do the final color correction, sound mix and titles.
HOW ELSE CAN I HELP? Right now, we really need money. But we also need enthusiastic web users. Post a link to our website The Adults in the Room on your blog, add us as a friend on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
And we hope to see you at one of our screenings!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 15, 2010.
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Erin Donovan received her degree in Political Economics from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In 2000 she co-founded and was a lead organizer of the Ladyfest arts festival. As a project coordinator for Kill Rock Stars records, she put together retrospective albums for punk luminaries like Essential Logic and the Delta 5.
She then spent an alternately very cold and very hot year in New England cutting her teeth on documentary film at the Media Education Foundation before going back to the west coast to work with independent film producers as an investment researcher. In 2009 she produced Andy Blubaugh's feature debut The Adults in the Room, a hybrid narrative-documentary about the director's experiences growing up. The film was one of the first successful documentary funding campaigns on Kickstarter and is currently screening on the international film festival circuit.
Erin is now the founder of A Million Movies a Minute, a documentary distributor whose inaugural release After the War: Life post-Yugoslavia featured 9 short documentaries from 5 award-winning, international film-makers including Jasmila Žbanić, winner of the Golden Bear award at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. In the spring of 2010 AMMAM released Animating Reality a compilation of animated documentaries that cover a wide spectrum of subject matter and in the fall will release Radical Act a feature-length documentary about the role female artists played in the 1990's indie rock scene.
She is currently the in-house producer for Field Recordings, a production company founded by Lance Bangs. She is also the chief film programmer for the annual Siren Nation Arts Festival in Portland, Oregon.
Follow her on Twitter @goodyerin
