Join director Mirjam von Arx for a Q&A session held after the Canadian Premiere of the film Virgin Tales, held at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2012.
For more info, please visit the film’s website at:
virgintales.com
Virgin Tales film synopsis (courtesy of the film’s website)
“Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity! As a counter-movement to the attitudes and practices of today’s culture, today one in eight girls in the US has vowed to remain “unsoiled” until marriage. But the seven children of the Wilson family, founders of the Purity Ball, take this concept of purity of body and mind one step further; even their first kiss will be at the altar. For two years the filmmakers follow the Wilson’s as some of their children prepare for their fairytale vision of romance and marriage and seek out their own prince and princess spouses. In the process, a broader theme emerges: how the religious right is grooming a young generation of virgins to embody an Evangelically-grounded Utopia in America.”
For more information about the Vancouver International Film Festival please visit their website at:
viff.org
Many thanks to Mirjam and the festival for the screening of the film Virgin Tales which I found really interesting and moving.
Q&A was filmed by Geoff Peters geoffmobile.com on a Google Nexus S Android phone.
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Talk to you later!
Geoff
