The Spark - The Origin of Pride
Synopsis
This is a story of anger. That of the customers of the “Stonewall inn”, in a gay bar in New-York. It’s 1969 and they don’t have the right to stand in the street or even dance. One more police raid. A revolt. Several days of riots. This is our starting point to tell an almost unknown story: fifty years of struggle for equality, for humanity, for love… the history of the LGBTQ+ struggle.
This is a story of three cities. This story will be told through the perspective of three iconic neighborhoods: the Castro in San Francisco, Le Marais in Paris and Greenwich Village in New York. Each of these neighborhoods tell of a specific moment: the repression in the 60s and 70s, the appearance of AIDS in the 80s, the phenomenon of fashion with the appearance of gay marketing and drag-queens in the 90s, the struggle for marriage equality and normalization from the 2000s.
This is a story of trans, women and men. Told with a cinematic narrative, with few comments, this film is made up of interviews of direct witnesses of that time (personalities, artists, politicians, entrepreneurs or ordinary citizens), rare archives and current-day filming in these neighborhoods that have so changed.
This is a story of pride.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Outplay Films
- French distribution : Outplay Films
Full credits (1)
- Participants : Bertrand Delanoë, Robert Badinter, Gérard Lefort
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French, English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2019
- French release : 24/07/2019
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
