Here is the trailer for On These Shoulders We Stand, a 75 minute doc documentary about 11 people who came to LA and changed history starting in the 1960s. If Glenne McElhinney’s movie is as moving and well-edited at the trailer, we’re in for a great contribution to U.S. and GBLT history.

What McElhinney says about her hopes for the film and it’s future*.

… “little of our West Coast LGBT history is known to popular audiences,” [and she] hopes to continue shedding light on Los Angeles’ contribution to California and national LGBT history through touring the state’s classrooms, community centers and historical societies with a multimedia presentation using clips from films, interviews and archival footage.

“I will also go back to doing oral histories of Californians across the state and eventually set up more on camera interviews where the footage may be used in future documentaries,” she says.

* SheWired.com

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Found this poignant short on filmmaking.net, another good site with a forum and information for editors.

Antietam Creek from Stephen Lewis on Vimeo.

Filmmaker Stephen Lewis commented: “My directorial debut. I learned a lot making it, especially about coverage. There were many shots I wish I had while editing that I did not get. It tells the story of a Union soldier longing for home on the eve of the battle of Antietam.”

Congrats Stephen! You did a great job with what you had (good footage) and your sound work was excellent – spare and supportive of your story. I especially appreciated your subject having visited Antietam, and seen the 2008 doc, Antietam (part of the History Channel’s 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America series) and because I possess a letter handed down from a distant cousin who survived this bloodiest of Civil War battles.

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