Mississippi: I AM

Client: Lance Bass Productions / Lanai Productions
Format: Feature Documentary
Release: Currently in Festivals
Duration: 45:36
Website: http://mississippiiam.com/

Most Transformative Film:
Crossroads Film Festival

The Pink Peach Short Grand Jury Prize:
Atlanta Film Festival

Best Documentary:
Tupelo Film Festival

In 2006, ‘NSync’s Lance Bass came out publicly as gay.  Once the “most beloved son” of his home state of Mississippi, he was instantly rejected and his hopes that Mississippi could ever embrace change were dashed.  Four years later, the story of a Mississippi youth made national headlines. Constance McMillen was suing her school for denying her the right to go to prom with her girlfriend.

Something was shifting in one of the most socially conservative places in America.  This gave Lance, and so many others, a glimmer of hope for change in the state they call home.

MISSISSIPPI: I AM, examines the relatively new battle on the part of primarily young LGBT people to bring gay civil rights and visibility out in the open and beyond division.

Producer:
Katherine Linton

Directors:
Katherine Linton & Harriet Hirshorn

Director of Photography:
Vincent Venturella

Editors:
Harriet Hirshorn & Jillian Buckley

Post-Production Supervisor:
Jorge Garcia Spitz