Looking for a movie that combines our current challenges with gaining marriage equality as well as family, love and romance? You’ll find all that and more in I Do, the new film by writer/producer David W. Ross (who also stars in the film) and director Glenn Gaylord (Leave It On The Floor).
The film, in select theaters now and also available to buy on iTunes, focuses on a unique side of the marriage equality debate – that of immigration for a non-us citizen (Ross) who, because of Doma, is forced to fake a relationship with a woman – who happens to be a lesbian, played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler – in order to stay in the country. The film also stars Mike C. Manning (The Real World), Alicia Witt, Patricia Belcher and Grant Bowler.
I chatted with Ross last week about the challenges of bringing all these issues together in the film,...
The film, in select theaters now and also available to buy on iTunes, focuses on a unique side of the marriage equality debate – that of immigration for a non-us citizen (Ross) who, because of Doma, is forced to fake a relationship with a woman – who happens to be a lesbian, played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler – in order to stay in the country. The film also stars Mike C. Manning (The Real World), Alicia Witt, Patricia Belcher and Grant Bowler.
I chatted with Ross last week about the challenges of bringing all these issues together in the film,...
- 6/4/2013
- by Jim Halterman
- The Backlot
Chicago – Nothing bugs a critic more than obstacles strategically placed in the path of otherwise happy characters. Without the conspiratorial manipulations of the plot, these people would have no problem leading perfectly content lives. Instead of emerging organically from the characters themselves, the conflict swoops in like a speeding car fresh off the highway.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s more or less what happens in the opening moments of Glenn Gaylord’s “I Do,” as a suave, good-natured Brit, Peter (Grant Bowler), is hit by a car upon leaving a New York restaurant with his pregnant wife, Mya (Alicia Witt), and brother, Jack (David W. Ross). Since Jack’s primary character flaw is that he’s too nice, he spends the next seven years raising his adorable niece, Tara (Jessica Tyler Brown), with Mya, while putting his personal life entirely on hold. Jack may have come off as a maddeningly idealized saint...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s more or less what happens in the opening moments of Glenn Gaylord’s “I Do,” as a suave, good-natured Brit, Peter (Grant Bowler), is hit by a car upon leaving a New York restaurant with his pregnant wife, Mya (Alicia Witt), and brother, Jack (David W. Ross). Since Jack’s primary character flaw is that he’s too nice, he spends the next seven years raising his adorable niece, Tara (Jessica Tyler Brown), with Mya, while putting his personal life entirely on hold. Jack may have come off as a maddeningly idealized saint...
- 5/31/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The chronic artistic (and, ironically, political) failure of much mainstream American queer cinema is its earnest, facile treatment of the issues affecting the Lgbt community. Director Glenn Gaylord, working from a script by David W. Ross, falls into the usual traps in this film about marriage equality and immigration, and the ways double standards with the former penalize gay couples dealing with the latter. British expatriate Jack (Ross) sees his life crumble when his work visa is denied though he's been in the U.S. for over a decade—he works as an assistant fashion photographer and is helping raise the young daughter of his late brother. Complicating matters, he's just met the love of his life, whose own citizenship status is tricky. A green-card marriage to his prickly lesbia...
- 5/30/2013
- Village Voice
The new film "I Do" covers the timely topic of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) and its effects on gay and straight couples alike.
Directed by Glenn Gaylord and written by David W. Ross, "I Do" depicts what happens when a gay man's visa expires, threatening his chances of staying in the country with the man he loves. Ross stars as Jack, who eventually ties the knot with his female friend (played by "Sopranos" veteran Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Before long, however, their green card marriage gets questioned by the authorities, with an outcome that affects the lives of everyone around them.
After winning the "Best of the Fest" Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January, "I Do" is now set for a limited run in selected theatres while simeoutaneously being available for download and On Demand May 31.
The Supreme Court is currently debating Doma, and whether to keep the law intact.
Directed by Glenn Gaylord and written by David W. Ross, "I Do" depicts what happens when a gay man's visa expires, threatening his chances of staying in the country with the man he loves. Ross stars as Jack, who eventually ties the knot with his female friend (played by "Sopranos" veteran Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Before long, however, their green card marriage gets questioned by the authorities, with an outcome that affects the lives of everyone around them.
After winning the "Best of the Fest" Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January, "I Do" is now set for a limited run in selected theatres while simeoutaneously being available for download and On Demand May 31.
The Supreme Court is currently debating Doma, and whether to keep the law intact.
- 5/17/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Opening May 31st, 2013, I Do views marriage equality in the U.S. through the prism of immigration rights. Stepping right into the middle of the marriage equality debate, I Do is the deeply affecting story about a man forced by discrimination to make an impossible choice. Yet while both sides of the issue passionately state their cases, what’s left in the balance are families and couples often split apart, especially those with bi-national makeups. Immigration, which most heterosexual couples take for granted as a given, complicates same-sex relationships, even in states where marriage is now legal. The cast of the film directed by Glenn Gaylord from the writing by David W. Ross, includes Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Alicia Witt, Maurice Compte, David W. Ross, Grant Bowler, Patricia Belcher, Jessica Brown and Mickey Cottrell.
- 5/6/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"I Do" tackles the topic of marriage equality alongside the struggle binational couples face when it comes to immigration rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States.
With America awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) and California's Prop 8, it goes without saying that marriage equality is a hot topic of discussion and the film is a moving examination of the tough choices Lgbt people are regularly forced to make.
Directed by Glenn Gaylord and written by David W. Ross, the film is set in New York City and highlights a British gay man (Ross) working as an assistant photographer. After suffering the loss of his brother (Grant Bowler) and being required to help raise his niece -- not to mention falling in love and then having his work visa denied -- he comes to a crossroads and has to make an enormous life-changing decision.
With America awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) and California's Prop 8, it goes without saying that marriage equality is a hot topic of discussion and the film is a moving examination of the tough choices Lgbt people are regularly forced to make.
Directed by Glenn Gaylord and written by David W. Ross, the film is set in New York City and highlights a British gay man (Ross) working as an assistant photographer. After suffering the loss of his brother (Grant Bowler) and being required to help raise his niece -- not to mention falling in love and then having his work visa denied -- he comes to a crossroads and has to make an enormous life-changing decision.
- 4/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Still from English Vinglish
Gauiri Shinde’s English Vinglish is one of the runners – up of the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival that concludes on Monday. The 24th edition of the festival screened 182 films from 68 countries.
The other runners-up are Gert Embrechts’ Allez, Eddy! (Belgium/ Luxembourg / The Netherlands), Travis Fine’s Any Day Now (USA), Peter Webber’s Emperor (Japan), Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt (Denmark), Glenn Gaylord’s I Do (USA), Inuk (Greenland), Kon-Tiki (Norway/UK) by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair (Denmark), Michael McGowan’s Still (Canada) and Darko Mitrevski’s The Third Half (Macedonia).
The Sapphires by Wayne Blair won the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey by Ramona Diaz was awarded the Audience Award Best for Documentary Feature. The Fipresci Prize for...
Gauiri Shinde’s English Vinglish is one of the runners – up of the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival that concludes on Monday. The 24th edition of the festival screened 182 films from 68 countries.
The other runners-up are Gert Embrechts’ Allez, Eddy! (Belgium/ Luxembourg / The Netherlands), Travis Fine’s Any Day Now (USA), Peter Webber’s Emperor (Japan), Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt (Denmark), Glenn Gaylord’s I Do (USA), Inuk (Greenland), Kon-Tiki (Norway/UK) by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair (Denmark), Michael McGowan’s Still (Canada) and Darko Mitrevski’s The Third Half (Macedonia).
The Sapphires by Wayne Blair won the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey by Ramona Diaz was awarded the Audience Award Best for Documentary Feature. The Fipresci Prize for...
- 1/14/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A same-sex bi-national couple fights inequality because of Doma (Defense of Marriage Act)
Next year the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Doma For the first time in history the Democratic Platform supports Gay Marriage. Last year the Obama administration stopped defending Doma as it finds it unconstitutional
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"Ross is appealing in the lead role…. with particularly strong efforts from Witt and,
in a solid supporting turn, Mickey Cottrell as Jack's elderly friend and mentor." - Hollywood Reporter
I Do
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Friday Jan 11th 7:30 Pm Camelot Theaters (cast & crew in attendance)
Saturday Jan 12th 2:30 Pm Camelot Theaters (cast & crew in attendance)
Director: Glenn Gaylord
Writer: David W Ross
Producers: David W Ross, Stephen Israel
Starring:
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Sopranos)
Alicia Witt (Friday Night Lights)
Maurice Compte (Breaking Bad, End of Watch)
David W Ross (Quinceanera)
Mickey Cottrell (My Own Private Idaho)
Grant Bowler (Liz & Dick)
World Premiere: Outfest 2012 Ford Series
Winner: Philadelphia QFest - "Rising Film Star Award" David W Ross
Winner: Long Beach QFilm Fest
Winner: Best Drama Atlanta Out On Film
Winner: Audience Award Pittsburgh Qfest
Winner: Audience Award Seattle Lgbt Film Festival
Beautiful urbanites steam up the screen in this ensemble family drama about a complicated love triangle from film maker Glenn Gaylord (Eating Out 3, Leave It On The Floor). To stay in New York City, gay Brit Jack (David W Ross "Quinceanera") convinces his lesbian best friend Ali (Jamie Lynn-Sigler, “The Sopranos”) to marry him. Things get messy when he falls for a sexy Spanish architect while his commitment to his brother's widow (Alicia Witt) and his young niece complicates his decision either to stay or to follow his lover.
I Do cleverly examines the complications of immigration issues in the absence of marriage equality for Lgbt people on a Federal level, while also presenting a nuanced adult drama that resonates deeply amidst the current fight for U.S. marriage equality.
for more info and trailer:
www.TwoWordscanChangeEverything.com
PR contact: idothemovie@gmail.com...
Next year the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Doma For the first time in history the Democratic Platform supports Gay Marriage. Last year the Obama administration stopped defending Doma as it finds it unconstitutional
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"Ross is appealing in the lead role…. with particularly strong efforts from Witt and,
in a solid supporting turn, Mickey Cottrell as Jack's elderly friend and mentor." - Hollywood Reporter
I Do
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Friday Jan 11th 7:30 Pm Camelot Theaters (cast & crew in attendance)
Saturday Jan 12th 2:30 Pm Camelot Theaters (cast & crew in attendance)
Director: Glenn Gaylord
Writer: David W Ross
Producers: David W Ross, Stephen Israel
Starring:
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Sopranos)
Alicia Witt (Friday Night Lights)
Maurice Compte (Breaking Bad, End of Watch)
David W Ross (Quinceanera)
Mickey Cottrell (My Own Private Idaho)
Grant Bowler (Liz & Dick)
World Premiere: Outfest 2012 Ford Series
Winner: Philadelphia QFest - "Rising Film Star Award" David W Ross
Winner: Long Beach QFilm Fest
Winner: Best Drama Atlanta Out On Film
Winner: Audience Award Pittsburgh Qfest
Winner: Audience Award Seattle Lgbt Film Festival
Beautiful urbanites steam up the screen in this ensemble family drama about a complicated love triangle from film maker Glenn Gaylord (Eating Out 3, Leave It On The Floor). To stay in New York City, gay Brit Jack (David W Ross "Quinceanera") convinces his lesbian best friend Ali (Jamie Lynn-Sigler, “The Sopranos”) to marry him. Things get messy when he falls for a sexy Spanish architect while his commitment to his brother's widow (Alicia Witt) and his young niece complicates his decision either to stay or to follow his lover.
I Do cleverly examines the complications of immigration issues in the absence of marriage equality for Lgbt people on a Federal level, while also presenting a nuanced adult drama that resonates deeply amidst the current fight for U.S. marriage equality.
for more info and trailer:
www.TwoWordscanChangeEverything.com
PR contact: idothemovie@gmail.com...
- 1/11/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Described as a mash-up of Paris Is Burning, Rent and Dreamgirls, the big-screen musical Leave It On The Floor vogues its way into London this week.
Peccadillo Pictures is holding a premiere on August 1 to launch an exclusive two-week theatrical run (August 1 to 16) at the Leicester Square Theatre. Leave It On The Floor then heads to DVD on September 10. The trailer is included below.
The film takes viewers into the world of the ball scene or ballroom community. This is an Lgbt subculture in the USA in which people band together in groups called houses and compete at events known as balls, performing routines that include the voguing dance popularised by Madonna's 1990 hit single.
Leave It On The Floor stars Ephraim Sykes as Bradley Darnell Lyle, Phillip Evelyn as Princess Eminence, Andre Myers as Carter and Miss Barbie-q as Queef Latina.
R&B star Beyonce acknowledged the ball culture with...
Peccadillo Pictures is holding a premiere on August 1 to launch an exclusive two-week theatrical run (August 1 to 16) at the Leicester Square Theatre. Leave It On The Floor then heads to DVD on September 10. The trailer is included below.
The film takes viewers into the world of the ball scene or ballroom community. This is an Lgbt subculture in the USA in which people band together in groups called houses and compete at events known as balls, performing routines that include the voguing dance popularised by Madonna's 1990 hit single.
Leave It On The Floor stars Ephraim Sykes as Bradley Darnell Lyle, Phillip Evelyn as Princess Eminence, Andre Myers as Carter and Miss Barbie-q as Queef Latina.
R&B star Beyonce acknowledged the ball culture with...
- 7/31/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
And speaking of Paris Is Burning (see 2 posts below)... another press release from my inbox... San Jose, Calif. – Inspired by the “vogueing” sensation featured in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, Sheldon Larry's exuberant musical Leave it on the Floor debuts on DVD August 14th from Wolfe Video. It will be available early across all digital platforms on July 24th. With music by Beyonce music director Kim Burse, screenplay and lyrics by Glenn Gaylord, choreography by Beyonce dance master, Frank Gatson Jr. and eye-popping visuals and direction by Sheldon Larry, the film is an ode to the wild funky and heart-aching life of this underground subculture. The...
- 6/21/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Twenty years after “Paris Is Burning” revealed New York’s “ball” culture, Sheldon Larry’s “Leave It on the Floor” explores Los Angeles’ contemporary ball scene with a musical scored by Beyoncé’s music director and choreographed by her dance master. Director Sheldon Larry writes for Moving Pictures about the impetus for the project, the challenges of getting inside the tight-knit community and the dangers his cast face during production.
Sheldon Larry
By Sheldon Larry (director-producer of “Leave It on the Floor”)
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The idea to create “Leave It on the Floor,” our original narrative musical feature, came to me profoundly almost 20 years ago, when I first saw Jennie Livingston’s documentary “Paris Is Burning” in 1990. I was living in New York City and directing film and theater off-Broadway. That film took a memorable first look at the New York “ball” community of the late 1980s,...
Sheldon Larry
By Sheldon Larry (director-producer of “Leave It on the Floor”)
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The idea to create “Leave It on the Floor,” our original narrative musical feature, came to me profoundly almost 20 years ago, when I first saw Jennie Livingston’s documentary “Paris Is Burning” in 1990. I was living in New York City and directing film and theater off-Broadway. That film took a memorable first look at the New York “ball” community of the late 1980s,...
- 6/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Twenty years after “Paris Is Burning” revealed New York’s “ball” culture, Sheldon Larry’s “Leave It on the Floor” explores Los Angeles’ contemporary ball scene with a musical scored by Beyoncé’s music director and choreographed by her dance master. Director Sheldon Larry writes for Moving Pictures about the impetus for the project, the challenges of getting inside the tight-knit community and the dangers his cast face during production.
Sheldon Larry
By Sheldon Larry (director-producer of “Leave It on the Floor”)
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The idea to create “Leave It on the Floor,” our original narrative musical feature, came to me profoundly almost 20 years ago, when I first saw Jennie Livingston’s documentary “Paris Is Burning” in 1990. I was living in New York City and directing film and theater off-Broadway. That film took a memorable first look at the New York “ball” community of the late 1980s,...
Sheldon Larry
By Sheldon Larry (director-producer of “Leave It on the Floor”)
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The idea to create “Leave It on the Floor,” our original narrative musical feature, came to me profoundly almost 20 years ago, when I first saw Jennie Livingston’s documentary “Paris Is Burning” in 1990. I was living in New York City and directing film and theater off-Broadway. That film took a memorable first look at the New York “ball” community of the late 1980s,...
- 6/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Sonia Sebastian’s Girl Seeks Girl (top); Glenn Gaylord’s Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (middle); Jochen Hick’s The Good American (bottom) The 2009 edition of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival runs from Oct. 16-25. Among the screening films are: Bette Gordon’s Handsome Harry, starring Jamey Sheridan as a 52-year-old, divorced ex-Navy man who, following an [...]...
- 9/19/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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