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Christian faith and the gay community are seemingly incompatible concepts, with the religious right fomenting bigotry and spreading fear, using the Bible and the pulpit as weapons to marginalize gays and lesbians. In For the Bible Tells Me So, filmmaker Daniel Karslake examines this faith-based issue both though the personal stories of five Christian families, all of whom struggled to reconcile their faith with loving their gay children, and the observations of well-respected religious figures about how biblical scripture is interpreted and misinterpreted. For the Bible Tells Me So opened at
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So, Americans elected its first African-American president. Time to ring in a "post-racial" New World Order? Time for a new chapter in ethnic documentary? Who better to ask than the man behind one of America's biggest ethnic film festivals? "We've already been around the block a couple of times with that," says Abraham Ferrer, wryly. Ferrer is the co-director of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and is just one of many projects run by one of California's oldest and most ambitious media arts centers: Visual Communications (VC; www
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