Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
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by Yvonne Welbon
(60 min., 1999)
Born July 23, 1899, Ruth Ellis was thought to be the oldest "out" African American lesbian. Her story offers a rare opportunity to experience a century of our history as lived by one inspiring woman. Ellis passed away October 5, 2000 at age 101.
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Selected Screenings
- Frameline: San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Winner: Audience Award - Best Documentary
- Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Winner: Audience Award - Outstanding Video Documentary
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Black Harvest Film Festival , The Film Center - Chicago
- Golden Threads, Provincetown, MA
- Wayne State University, Detroit MI
- Michigan Women's Music Festival
- The Lincoln Library - Springfield, IL
- Making Scenes ‘99 - Ottawa Canada
- Milwaukee Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Out At the Movies - San Antonio, TX
- Western Illinois University - Macomb, IL
- Image & Nation - Montreal, Canada
- Image Out - Rochester New York
- Tampa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival - Hot Springs, AR
- Cleveland Public Theater
- Reel Affirmations - Washington, D.C.
Winner - Director's Award - Best Documentary
- Wingspan - Tucson, Arizona
Winner - Audience Award Best Documentary
- Brother to Brother, Cleveland, OH
- Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Paris Lesbian Film Festival
- Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - Santa Barbara, CA
- La Lesbian @ La Pena - Berkeley, CA
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Pink Week - Amsterdam
- Outfest - Los Angeles, CA
- Astraea's 13th Annual Lynn Campbell Memorial Fund Benefit - New York, NY
- Office of Gay and Lesbian Affairs - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of California, San Diego
- Malcolm X Public Library, San Diego, CA
- Aaron Davis Hall - City College, NY
- Pan African Film Festival - Magic Johnson Theaters - Los Angeles, CA
- University of Oregon Queer Film Festival - Eugene, OR
- Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
- Emory University Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Atlanta, GA
- New York Gay and Lesbian Community Center
- The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
- Immaginaria: 8th Int'l Lesbian Film Festival- Bologna, Italy
- The Sundance Channel - Cablecast, April and June 2000
- Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY
- Society for Cinema Studies Conference - Chicago
- Association of Women Psychologist Conference - Salt Lake City, Utah
- Las Cruces/Dona Ana Chapter - PFLAG - Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Walker Art Center -Minneapolis, MN
- Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
- 2000 Biennial - The Whitney Museum of American Art - NY
- East Lansing Film Festival
- Wastenaw Rainbow Action - Ypsilanti, MI
- Wisconsin Film Festival - Madison
- London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Purdue University - Lafayette, IN
- Singapore International Film Festival
- Graduate Lambda Coalition at the University of Maryland
- Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference - UNC, Chapel Hill
- University of Detroit, Mercy
- Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema
- Women of Color Film Festival - Berkeley, CA
- Whitney Biennial Traveling Program at The Art Institute of Chicago
- 2000 Charlotte Gay & Lesbian Film Series - Charlotte, NC
- Silver Images Film Festival - Chicago Special AARP Outreach Screenings
- Dykes Don't Hide: Keeping Our Herstory Out of the Closet, Seattle, WA
- Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Astraea Foundation Benefit - Jewish Community Center - Washington, D.C.
- Inside Out - Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Winner - Audience Award Best Documentary
- Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- London Lesbian Film Festival - Ontario, Canada
- Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Milano-Bologna, Italy
- Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- The New Festival - New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- Provincetown Film Festival
- Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Norway
- Kansas City - Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Reel Queer - New Zealand Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Black Arts Festival -Atlanta
- Moving Dykes - Lesbos, Greece
- Dublin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Ireland
- Vancouver Queer Film Festival
- Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Winner - Best Documentary
- Seoul Queer Film Festival - Korea
- The Future of the Queer Past Conference - University of Chicago
- Beats, Bytes and the Big Screen Festival- London
- Berlin Lesbian Film Festival
- Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , Germany
- Great Plains Film Festival/University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Northampton Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - MA
Winner - Audience Award Best Documentary
- Dallas Outtakes Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- University of Kentucky - Lexington
- Queersicht- Bern, Switzerland
- Fresno Reel Pride Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - CA
- Hallwalls Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Buffalo, NY
- Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - NY
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