Saturday, 28 February 09: Documentary Screening - The Times of Harvey Milk (Re-screening)

28 of February 2009 @ PELANGI PRIDE CENTRE

Pelangi Pride Centre presents - "THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK" (Re-screening)
( this is not the Gus Van Sant 2008 "Milk")

Due to a technical fault at our previous screening, we will be re-screening "The Times of Harvey Milk".
Our apologies to our friends who came last Saturday - this one's on us. :)
(please do RSVP so that we can add you to our invite list)

Details at a Glance
Date: 28 February 2009 (Sat)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)
friends who came last Saturday - this one's on us. :)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
LIMITED to only 30 pax, prior registration is required.
For an invite - please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests, by 27th Feb 2009.

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The Times of Harvey Milk

The film was produced after Milk's death using original interviews, exclusive documentary footage, news reports, and archival footage, so that Milk is credited as the lead (posthumously). Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage. The movie opens with a tearful Feinstein delivering her announcement to the media that Moscone and Milk had been assassinated by Dan White.

Also featured in the film is then-schoolteacher Tom Ammiano, who has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 1994, and was recently elected to the California State Assembly.

The film was narrated by Harvey Fierstein with an original score by Mark Isham.

The film was directed by Rob Epstein and produced Richard Schmiechen. Richard Schmiechen died from AIDS several years after the completion of the film.

Saturday, 14 February 09: Documentary Screening - The Times of Harvey Milk

14 of February 2009 @ PELANGI PRIDE CENTRE

Screening of "THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK"
( this is not the Gus Van Sant 2008 "Milk")

Details at a Glance
Date: 14 February 2009 (Sat)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
LIMITED to only 30 pax, prior registration is required.
For an invite - please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests, by 13th Feb 2009.

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The Times of Harvey Milk

The film was produced after Milk's death using original interviews, exclusive documentary footage, news reports, and archival footage, so that Milk is credited as the lead (posthumously). Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage. The movie opens with a tearful Feinstein delivering her announcement to the media that Moscone and Milk had been assassinated by Dan White.

Also featured in the film is then-schoolteacher Tom Ammiano, who has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 1994, and was recently elected to the California State Assembly.

The film was narrated by Harvey Fierstein with an original score by Mark Isham.

The film was directed by Rob Epstein and produced Richard Schmiechen. Richard Schmiechen died from AIDS several years after the completion of the film.

Open this Saturday! (24 Jan 09)

Hi everyone!

We're working extra hard this year and won't be taking our usual break during the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, so come by and hang out with us this Saturday, 24 Jan 09, we'll be open from 4-8pm as usual :)

Wishing all PPC friends who celebrate CNY a Happy "Niu" Year! :)

All the best!
Nam Khim, Eileena and Charm

Saturday, 10 January 09: Documentary Screening - This Film Is Not Yet Rated

10 of January 2009 @ PELANGI PRIDE CENTRE

Screening of "THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED"


Details at a Glance
Date: 10 January 2009 (Sat)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
LIMITED to only 30 pax, prior registration is required.
For an invite - please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com]with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests, by 8th Jan 2009.

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released limited on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the film's producer, aired the film later that year.

The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content" - scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not rated.

The film discusses disparities the filmmaker sees in ratings and feedback: between Hollywood and independent films, between homosexual and heterosexual sexual situations, between male and female sexual depictions, and between violence and sexual content.

Themes and discussion
Much of the film's press coverage was devoted to Dick and his crew's use of a private investigator to unmask the identities of the ratings and appeals board members.

Other revelations in the film include: the discovery that many ratings board members either have children 18 and over or have no children at all (typically, the MPAA has suggested it hires only parents with children between the ages of 5 and 17); that the board seems to treat homosexual material much more harshly than heterosexual material (this assertion is supported by an MPAA spokesperson's statement in USA Today that "We don't create standards; we just follow them"); that the board's raters receive no training and are deliberately chosen because of their lack of expertise in media literacy or child development; that senior raters have direct contact in the form of required meetings with studio personnel after movie screenings; and that the MPAA's appeals board is just as secretive as the ratings board, its members being mostly movie theater chain and studio executives. Also included on the appeals board are two members of the clergy (one Catholic and one Episcopalian, who may or may not have voting power).

Prior to Sundance, the film sparked initial press interest when it was handed an NC-17 rating by the MPAA for "some graphic sexual content." When it premiered at Sundance, the film's ratings deliberations, along with Kirby Dick's appeal, were included in the documentary. Since the film had changed dramatically from the time of the NC-17 rating, the film cannot be released with an MPAA rating without the film being resubmitted for review.

The film went on to draw crowds at many other festivals, including South by Southwest and the Seattle International Film Festival, and was slated for theatrical release in fall 2006.

more info at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

PPC open every Saturday in December!

Hi all

Greetings from the PPC Team!

Apologies that the PPC website has been offline since early December 2008. Whilst we are sorting out the technical difficulties, we want to reiterate we are still very much OPEN every Saturday from 4-8pm! :)

Come by for a visit at DYMK (9 Kreta Ayer Road) and chill out whilst enjoying the latest read!

For more information, please drop us an email at pelangipridecentre@yahoo.com

Take care and see you soon!