Name/Title
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane RuleEntry/Object ID
2024.7.7Description
Winner of the 1995 Audience Award for Best Documentary Film, San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
This powerful documentary about the internationally acclaimed author and social activist, Jane Rule, traces her formative years in the United States; her move to Canada during the McCarthy Era; the 1964 publication of her first novel about two women in love, The Desert of the Heart; her outspoken defense of the gay and lesbian newspaper, The Body Politic, throughout its lengthy period of harassment by police and the courts for its discussion of homosexuality; and her continuing battle against censorship of all kids.
Genie-Award winning directors Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, and producer Rina Fraticelli have created an intelligent, evocative and tender portrait of an artist who is not afriad to tell the truth as she sees it.Motion Picture Details
Film Gauge/Format
VHSRuntime
0:57:00Producer/Publisher
A Great Jane Production with the participation of Telefilm Canada and the Ontario Film Development Corporation and in association with TVOntario
National Film Board of Canada ReleaseNotes
Directors: Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman
Producer: Rina FraticelliCreate Date
May 16, 2024Update Date
August 7, 2024