Naming Prairie

Naming Prairie

woman filmmaker, queer, feminist, family, Jewish, lesbian

My work: a short video introducing the themes and families who would be the subject of my feature on feminist queer families, including my own, Dear Gabe. The short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. It is about the Jewish babynaming ceremony for Prairie, the daugher of my friends Hali and Margie Hammer-Hutchison, and features interviews with several of my dearest friends from college, and also my partner at the time, and the other mother of my kids, Cheryl Dunye.

2002

Friends and relatives join together to celebrate a Bay Area lesbian couple's Jewish baby-naming ceremony demonstrating how the most ancient of institutions - the family and Judaism- can adapt to a contemporary life. A joyous celebration of both tradition and change. --Jewish Film Institute

7 mins

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11131099&node=49571020&a=136554369