Screening of Royal Road, A Film by Jenni Olson

Join GWSS for a screening of the award winning documentary (description below) and a Q&A after the viewing!

A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero Serra's Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo — all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner.

This bold, innovative film from acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker Jenni Olson combines rigorous historical research with lyrically written personal monologue and relates these seemingly disparate stories from an intimate, colloquial perspective to tell a one-of-a-kind California tale.

* Winner: Best LGBTQ Film — Ann Arbor Film Festival
* Winner: Best Feature — Queer Porto LGBT Film Festival
* Special Jury Mention — Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
* Special Jury Mention — Dokufest: International Documentary and Short Film Festival
* Lili Award: Documentary Special Mention — MIX Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival
* Official Selection: 2015 Sundance Film Festival