Project: This Is What Love In Action Looks Like
"This Is What Love In Action Looks Like," is directed by award winning filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox ("Blue Citrus Hearts," "OMG/HaHaHa").
This Is What Love In Action Looks Like will be available on DVD in US May 8th 2012. In the UK on May 28th 2012.
The film is being distributed by TLA Releasing: www.tlareleasing.com
Film currently available for pre-sale: www.amazon.com
Synopsis: In the summer of 2005, Zach, a 16-year-old boy from Memphis, Tennessee wrote on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay.
Within days of his coming out, his mother and father would send him to Love In Action (LIA), a fundamentalist Christian program that refers to homosexuality as an addictive behavior.
The depressed and fearful teenager shared his feelings on his blog.
May 29, 2005
The World Coming To An Abrupt Stop
Current mood: depressed
"Today, my mother, father, and I had a very long ‘talk‘ in my room where they let me know I am to apply for a fundamentalist christian program for gays. They tell me that there is something psychologically wrong with me..."
Zach's parents had enlisted the support of LIA's newly formed program for teens, called Refuge, with the hope that his gay “addiction” could be cured. His blog entries quickly spread from his friends, to the local community, to the nation through the internet. In a remarkably short time, daily protests were organized outside the campus of LIA.
“This Is What Love In Action Looks Like” documents the widely controversial and inspirational story of what The New York Times referred to as "A modern day message in a bottle."
In the documentary, former Love In Action director John Smid as well as former adult and teenage clients share their hearts on these experiences. In addition, local bloggers, community activists and classmates of Zach tell their stories of becoming involved with what would become an international news story.
Concerned people around the world awaited news of how Zach was doing during his eight weeks in Refuge. By the time he emerged in late July 2005, there was a barrage of headlines in the international press, including Good Morning America, CNN, The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Advocate among others.
In the years since it began, with all the media coverage and investigations, Zach had declined to tell his story. Until now. The teenager whose MySpace blogs began it all gives an exclusive interview for the documentary.
“This Is What Love In Action Looks Like,” is directed by award winning filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox (“Blue Citrus Hearts,” “OMG/HaHaHa”).
