OutFest Los Angeles - "Bridegroom" takes the Audience Award for documentary

"Bridegroom," directed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creator of the TV series “Designing Women”), took the audience award for documentary feature at the LA LGBT film festival, OutFest Los Angeles. It previously won the audience award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film, based on a YouTube video that went viral, examines the subject of marriage equality through the tragic story of a young gay couple that never got to marry before one of them, Tom Bridegroom, died in 2011 after falling off the roof of an apartment building while taking pictures.

After his death, Bridegroom's partner, Shane Bitney Crone, found that he had no rights when it came to dealing with the aftermath of Bridegroom's death. A year later he posted a 10-minute video called "It Could Happen to You," which eventually attracted 3.4-million views.

Here's the trailer for the film:



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