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LOVING STORY, THE
By Nancy Buirski and Elisabeth Haviland James

Oscar-shortlist selection THE LOVING STORY, the debut feature by Full Frame documentary festival founder Nancy Buirski, is the definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.

This evocative documentary, which incorporates luminous, newly discovered 16mm footage of the Lovings and their young ACLU lawyers Bernard S. Cohen and Philip J. Hirschkop, as well as first-person testimony and rare documentary photographs by LIFE magazine photographer Grey Villet, recounts the little-known story of the Loving family. The marriage of Mildred (who was part-black and part-Native American) and Richard (who was white) was declared illegal in 1958 by their home state of Virginia. They refused to leave one another and, with the help of the ACLU, relentlessly pursued their right to happiness.

Their case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision finally struck down state laws against interracial marriage throughout the country. THE LOVING STORY takes us behind the scenes of the legal challenges and the emotional turmoil that they entailed, documenting a seminal moment in history and reflecting a timely message of marriage equality in a personal, human love story.

Reviews
~ "It seems a throwback when many of today's presidential hopefuls rail against federal government interference in state's rights, threaten to rein in liberal activist courts, and use ACLU as a dirty word." - Mary C. Curtis, The Washington Post

~ "ˇ­the most romantic and moving documentary of the yearˇ­" - Bust Magazine

Awards
~ Winner, WGA Screenplay Award, 2011 Silverdocs Documentary Festival
~ Centerpiece, 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
77 minutes
2011
 
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