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Pray Away
Why this pick
A compassionate documentary reckoning with conversion-therapy ideology, centring survivors and former advocates with the same urgency for accountability and community care.
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MOVIE2011 1h 14m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the summer of 2005 a 16yo Memphis, TN wrote on his MySpace blog about his parents sending him to a "Fundamentalist Christian" program that strives to turn gay teens straight. The inspirational story of this teens local community standing up for their friend with daily protests at the facility in what would become an international news story.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Alice Buchanan
Alice Buchanan
Lance Carroll
Lance Carroll
Chris Davis
Chris Davis
Katherine Dohan
Katherine Dohan
David Fountain
David Fountain
Morgan Jon Fox
Morgan Jon Fox
E.J. Friedman
E.J. Friedman
Roy Gilbert-Higginson
Roy Gilbert-Higginson