Posted October 3, 2011 3:56 pm EDT
Bloomington - The Buskirk-Chumley Theater and Bloomington’s PRIDE Film Festival will present the award-winning motion picture, A Marine Story on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 7pm. Tickets are $5 General Admission and are available through the BCT Box Office, 114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN. Tickets can be purchased by phone at (812) 323.3020 or online at www.buskirkchumley.org.
On Sept 20, 2011, the U.S. military officially ended the long-standing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, marking a new era for gays and lesbians in the armed services.
Star and co-producer of the film, Dreya Weber will participate in a panel discussion following the film, joined by local military representatives and LGBTQ scholars and activists exploring the ramifications of this historic transition.
A Marine Story follows a decorated Marine officer as she unexpectedly returns home from the war and is quickly recruited to help a trouble teen prepare for boot camp, but when the true reasons for her return become known it threatens the future for both of them.
This won’t be Ms. Weber’s first visit.
Now based in Los Angeles where her first, and also award-winning, film The Gymnast was produced, Ms. Weber’s primary artistic enterprise is that of an aerial choreographer and performer. Instrumental in Pink’s 2010 Grammy performance of “Glitter in the Air,” creating choreography for artists such as Cher, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift has taken her all over the world.
Yet, Ms. Weber’s aerial career started right here in Bloomington. Family ties brought her to Indiana where the Bloomington High Flyers, founded by Bernadette Pace, inspired a new direction for the talented performer. Ms. Weber is currently featured as the sultry aerialist/singer in the Seattle production of Teatro ZinZanni’s “Hail Ceasar!”
A Marine Story highlights the problems with the military ban on gays and lesbians through the personal story of one courageous woman, and was awarded OUTFest’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature and Best Actress as well as the Los Angeles’ LGBTQ film festival’s Audience Award.
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