Old Lesbians
MEGHAN MCDONOUGH | USA | 2023 | 29 MIN | ENGLISH EST
MEGHAN MCDONOUGH | USA | 2023 | 29 MIN | ENGLISH EST
Subtitles: English
Synopsis
For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
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Filmmaker Bio
Meghan McDonough is a filmmaker and journalist who directs and edits documentary shorts and series to better understand our world. She won Aesthetica/Audible’s Listening Pitch in 2023 to fund her documentary short Old Lesbians, which has since screened at the longstanding queer film festival BFI Flare as well as universities and community centers from Texas to Alabama to the California State Capitol.
Director's Statement
As a queer woman, I connect deeply with Arden Eversmeyer’s drive to preserve our community’s life stories through the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP). I’m especially motivated by OLOHP’s stated mission, to “remind us all of the relative freedom we now enjoy because of the women who were strong enough to live their lives and love whom they wanted in a hostile society.”
Producer
Stevie Borrello
Cinematographer
Rengim Mutevellioglu + Cassie Coker
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