OT - This Film Is Not Yet Rated

[leavethesky]

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is featured on boingboing.net and AfterEllen and everyone should see it. It's about the supersekrit, homophobic, misogynist MPAA censorship board that slapped an NC-17 rating on But I'm a Cheerleader and a ton of other indie films. I'm sure everyone on my flist has seen BIaC and remembers that it contained NO explicit SEX or violence. There's more sex on primetime television than there was in BIaC. Gee, I wonder what they found objectionable. Could it be that it featured gay teenagers who didn't end up straight and/or dead, but together (still gay), alive, and happy in the end? Clearly pr0n.

There are interviews with Jamie Babbit (director of BiaC) and Kimberly Pierce (director of Boys Don't Cry) along with a variety of other indie directors and producers who risked their professional lives to talk about the MPAA. I can't wait to see it. And, like the writer at boinboing.net, I make it a point to own as many indie NC-17 films as possible.

The producers also have a fantastic, tell-all blog, here.

Comments

[cheyne55.livejournal.com]

I loved this movie! It's unfortunate the MPAA slapped the rating on it that they did (and, yes, we all know why) because this is a movie that everyone should see at least once. I thought its message was very clear without being bludgeoned over the head with it. The tongue-in-cheek humor was delivered with perfect 'moral' outrage especially by Cathy Moriarty and RuPaul. I will have to check out the blog. Thanks for sharing it.