A Place to Live Screening on September 27

Screen Actors Guild LGBT Actors and Senior Performers Committee Presents a screening of the award-winning documentary A Place to Live

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the producers and director — as well as an appearance by the subjects of the film itself.

SAG Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Actors Committee has partnered with SAG Senior Performers Committee to bring you this special event.

When: 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Please arrive no later than 6:45 p.m.
Program begins promptly at 7 p.m. with Q&A to follow.

Where: Screen Actors Guild
360 Madison Avenue – 14th Floor – Leon Janney Boardroom
New York, NY 10017
(Entrance on 45th Street, between 5th and Madison Avenues)

Special Guest Panelists include: Carolyn Coal, Director; Noam Dromi, Executive Producer; Cynthia Childs, Producer; Susan Munro, Editor & Producer; Mark Supper, Executive Director GLEH (Gay Lesbian Elder Housing Corporation); Carolyn Dye, Board Member GLEH; Karen Dickinson, Senior Participant; Poss Ivy Botini (Lesbian activist).
Co-Moderated by Adam Moore, Interim National Director, SAG Affirmative Action & Diversity and Zino Macaluso, National Director/Senior Counsel, SAG Agency Relations.
RSVP Required at rsvpdiversity@sag.org.

Members are permitted to bring one guest to the screening and must confirm the name of their guest with their RSVP. 

A Place to Live chronicles the journey of seven brave individuals as they attempt to secure a home in Triangle Square, Hollywood, the nation’s first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. Since demand far exceeds the number of available apartments, a lottery system was set up to determine who would be selected to start a new life in the facility. This documentary film is a moving, heart-breaking, but ultimately uplifting exploration of the applicants’ personal journeys as they move through the lottery system.  The scarcity of affordable housing is a deepening national crisis and LGBT seniors are often discriminated against, forced back into the closet in retirement homes, or separated from their significant others in assisted living facilities.  This wonderful, award-winning film shines a bright light on the issues of neglect and marginalization of our elders. It is a must see cinematic experience that lifts the human spirit and touches your heart.

For more information please contact Screen Actors Guild Affirmative Action & Diversity Department at diversity@sag.org or call (212) 827-1433

About the film:
Check out more information on the film by logging on to www.aplacetolivemovie.com.
The LA Weekly's review of the film summarized it this way: “Director Carolyn Coal follows seven elderly gays and lesbians from the time they first hear about the building of a housing complex for senior LGBT folk in early 2006, through the excruciating wait a year later to hear if they've won the lottery for admittance. As the seniors share their stories of illness, poverty and homophobia, they prove themselves heroes and heroines whose humor and resilience are as inspiring as their hardships are heart piercing.”