Guus Bosman

The week before the festival I bought a ticket for the Sunday afternoon re-screening of the Award winners, obviously without knowing what the winners would be. When I arrived Sunday around noon I was curious to see who had won, and I read on the posters that For The Bible Tells Me So had won the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, and I saw it in the same session as the award winning short.

Wow... what a movie!

This documentary by Daniel Karslake describes the various attitudes of different Christian churches in the United States towards homosexuality. Some churches condemn it as the worst sin possible, while others see no difference between homosexual and heterosexual relationships and allow gay people to become priests.

The intolerance shown by some in the movie was amazing and shocking and the movie was incredibly moving. Not just due to the struggle of the homosexual main characters but also because of the struggle their families went through, in various ways.

This was the best documentary I've seen at the 2007 Full Frame Festival. A very deserved award winner.