PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} received multiple awards in the 2010 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. The film won the Audience Vote for Best Local Film and the Jury Vote of Honorable Mention for Short Film. Here’s what the jury said: “The most diverse and all-inclusive short film of the festival. Well-crafted art direction and editing. Galvanizing. Given the current media attention youth in our community are getting, this film must be seen nationwide.”
Fed up with a lack of queer visibility, twenty-six young people in Seattle’s eastside suburbs weave together this ground-breaking narrative of shifting identities and social change. PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is the compelling documentary about a generation of young people reteaching gender and sexual identity. From getting beat-up in a schoolyard to being picked up as a runaway, youth profess expertise in an honest evaluation of their schools and families. An interview based documentary where the realities of social isolation and violence are woven together with optimistic portraits of fearlessness and liberation. In an open and honest exploration of education, family, and community, PUT THIS ON THE MAP moves an audience from self-reflection to action. PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is decisively instructive for improving schools and communities for queer/transgender young people.
