INVASION OF THE PINES
a film by Jon Morrow
USA, 2005
8½ minutes, documentary
1.33:1, NTSC, color, stereo
mini-DV, DVD, VHS
Synopsis
In
1976, a visitor in drag was denied entry to a restaurant in the Fire Island
Pines, an oceanfront island community east of New York City. When a group of
his friends from the neighboring town of Cherry Grove heard what had happened,
they too dressed up in drag and returned to the Pines by water taxi on July
4, 1976, staging what would become the first annual drag "invasion."
Thirty years later, the annual Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines now attracts hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators to what has become the most spectacular and unusual Fourth of July event anywhere.
In "Invasion of the Pines," filmmaker Jon Morrow tells the history and shows the pageantry of this one-of-a-kind Independence Day celebration.
Festivals
and Screenings
"Invasion of the Pines" was screened on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at the 2007 OutFlix Festival in Memphis, Tennessee.
"Invasion of the Pines" was screened on November 12, 2006 at the Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Huntington, New York, as part of the "Best In Fest" Shorts Program.
"Invasion of the Pines" had its Metro New York Premiere at the Fire Island Film & Video Festival, a program of the Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, on September 16, 2006, in Cherry Grove, New York, where it received the award for Best Short Documentary by audience poll.
"Invasion of the Pines" had its World Premiere screening on June 10, 2006, as part of the Closing Night Gala of the 19th Annual Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Hartford, Connecticut.
In January 2006, "Invasion of the Pines" was selected as a Finalist in the Documentary category of the 7th Annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards.
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