Change (2011)

An AfricanAmerican teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 the California voter initiative to eliminate samesex marriage is passed When one of Jamies friend group initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it but when things dont go the way he predicted he is forced to face his fears head on Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Frameline35 The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Change is a poetic and moving film which deftly examines one young mans internal identity struggles within the context of the modern movement for LGBT rights and a high school experience fraught with peer pressure