Aerlyn Weissman
2021Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman
Stephanie Morgenstern, Lynne Adams
Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love".
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule
Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman
Documentary profile of writer Jane Rule whose literary career produced a wealth of novels and journalistic pieces which, in the face of Canadian censorship, speak eloquently about the lives of lesbians and gay men.
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule
Little Sister's vs. Big Brother
Aerlyn Weissman
This documentary, filmed over a 10-year period, centers on the debate over censorship as it follows Vancouver's Little Sister's Bookstore and its 20-year struggle with Canada Customs over the seizure of books. In the face of bigotry, bombings and repeated book seizures, it wages the most important legal battle in history against Canada Customs.
Little Sister's vs. Big Brother
A Winter Tan
Louise Clark, Aerlyn Weissman
Jackie Burroughs, Hernando Gonzáles
Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her attitude of cultural and racial condescension toward Mexican men was to regard them as nothing more than beasts of burden for her own sexual pleasure, and her hedonistic pursuits of sex and drugs led to her death at the hands of one of her many boytoys.
A Winter Tan
