SYNOPSIS
In the mid 1980s, 14-year-old Cecilia Neant-Falk posted an advertisement in a magazine asking, ¡°Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?¡± The few responses let her know she wasn¡¯t alone. Fifteen years later, now a filmmaker, Neant-Falk posted the same question on the Internet. This time, she received eighty replies, out of which she chose three young women - Joppe, Natalie and My - to give video cameras to and have them record the next four years of their lives.
The young women maintained video journals of their own reflections, capturing their families¡¯ opinions and their communities¡¯ biases, and effectively taking the audience into their closeted world. Neant-Falk incorporates her own experiences, thoughts and struggles with those of the featured women, echoing the common sense of isolation in growing up queer. Don¡¯t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass is a revealing and intimate portrait that touches on the fear, anger, alienation and, above all else, the courage it takes to grow up gay in a straight world. (Pdoduction note)
PROGRAM NOTE
In the mid 1980s, 14-year-old Cecilia Neant-Falk posted an advertisement in a magazine asking, ¡°Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?¡± The few responses let her know she wasn¡¯t alone. Fifteen years later, now a filmmaker, Neant-Falk posted the same question on the Internet. This time, she received eighty replies, out of which she chose three young women - Joppe, Natalie and My - to give video cameras to and have them record the next four years of their lives.
The young women maintained video journals of their own reflections, capturing their families¡¯ opinions and their communities¡¯ biases, and effectively taking the audience into their closeted world. Neant-Falk incorporates her own experiences, thoughts and struggles with those of the featured women, echoing the common sense of isolation in growing up queer. Don¡¯t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass is a revealing and intimate portrait that touches on the fear, anger, alienation and, above all else, the courage it takes to grow up gay in a straight world. (Pdoduction note)