Out Of The Past

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This 64-minute documentary, winner of the "Audience Award" at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, details the hurdles that determined teenager Kelli Peterson had to confront when she decided to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance at her Utah high school in 1996. After both the school board and the state legislature made efforts to bar the Alliance from the school, the teens drew national attention as they continued to fight for their rights. Peterson, her family, and friends are interviewed by filmmaker Jeff Dupre, who...
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Overview

This 64-minute documentary, winner of the "Audience Award" at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, details the hurdles that determined teenager Kelli Peterson had to confront when she decided to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance at her Utah high school in 1996. After both the school board and the state legislature made efforts to bar the Alliance from the school, the teens drew national attention as they continued to fight for their rights. Peterson, her family, and friends are interviewed by filmmaker Jeff Dupre, who put the situation in perspective with five historical segments, presented chronologically yet intercut with the modern-day Utah conflicts -- the secret diary of 17th-century Puritan clerk Michael Wigglesworth; the 19th-century "marriage" in Boston of novelist Sarah Orne Jewett and socialite Annie Fields; the 1924 organization in Chicago of the first American gay rights group; Bayard Rustin and his role in the Civil Rights movement; and the work of activist Barbara Gittings during the '50s and '60s. Actors Stephen Spinella, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cherry Jones, Edward Norton, and Leland Gantt deliver the narration for these historical segments through readings of letters and diaries. Filmed in 16mm color and black-and-white, Out of the Past was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/26/2005
  • UPC: 783722710722
  • Original Release: 1998

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  • Source: Allumination
  • Presentation: Pan & Scan
  • Time: 1:10:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Stephen Spinella Voice Only
Gwyneth Paltrow Voice Only
Cherry Jones Voice Only
Edward Norton Voice Only
Leland Gantt Voice Only
Barbara Gittings Participant
Technical Credits
Jeff Dupre Director, Producer
Eliza Byard Co-producer
Michelle Ferrari Co-producer, Screenwriter
Matthias Gohl Score Composer
Kevin Jennings Associate Producer
George O'Donnell Editor
Toby Shimin Editor
Buddy Squires Cinematographer
Andrew Tobias Executive Producer
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Growing Up [6:09]
2. Secret [7:47]
3. Opening Doors [6:50]
4. Sarah and Annie [7:49]
5. A Solid Wall [6:33]
6. Studen Uprising [6:03]
7. Lost Prophet [5:28]
8. Master Organized [7:52]
9. Becoming Visable [10:17]
10. Ending Credits [3:22]
11. Chapter 11 [:00]
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