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      Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine

      2012, Documentary/Biography, 1h 29m

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      Movie Info

      The life of Matt Shepard and the people who remember him.

      • Genre: Documentary, Biography, Lgbtq+

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Michele Josue

      • Producer: Michele Josue, Liam McNiff

      • Writer: Michele Josue

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: Education Pictures

      • Production Co: Run Rabbit Run Media

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      • Sep 15, 2016
        A beautiful, personal project that reclaims Matt Shepard as an ordinary - and extraordinary - human being and friend. Painful illuminating and precious.
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      • Jun 23, 2016
        Matthew Shepard represents many things to many different people. For some he stands as a symbol of why people need to fight for equality, for others he opened their eyes to the horror and abuses that people go through every day simply for being different. What's easy to forget however, is that first and foremost, Matthew Shepard was a human being. Shepard was a friendly, kind, outgoing, young man from a small town and there in lied the problem. In a town of a few thousand, Shepard stood out and everyone knew who he was and what he was. One night, a couple of drunk rednecks decided to mess with him, it went too far, and they killed him. This film, isn't about that though, it isn't one of the many films about the symbol that Shepard became or the fight for equal rights his story ignited. This is a film, by a long time friend of Matt's, who simply wanted the world to know about her friend. Michele Josue interviews Matt's brokenhearted family and friends about his life, from childhood up until his untimely death, and weather your gay or not, weather you respect gay rights or not, you can't help but feel for these people who lost such a bright, loving, artistic person, who made everyone around him just that much better for knowing him. It's a terrific documentary and I was very happy that for once, a documentary focused on the life of the man instead of the tragic way that he was killed.
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