Documentary on S.F.'s gay weddings has helped break down stereotypes

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Student's film winning awards, changing minds
Documentary on S.F.'s gay weddings has helped break down stereotypes

Janine DeFao, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Zach Landman had planned to do a documentary for his high school senior project on a subject he knew intimately -- the pressures of high school sports.

Instead, the linebacker at Orinda's Miramonte High ended up tackling the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage, which he'd barely given a passing thought.

"I don't really have any gay friends or family members," Landman, 17, recalled last week. "I honestly couldn't have told you if I was for it or against it."

But news images of gays and lesbians lining up outside San Francisco City Hall on a rainy morning in February to be the first same-sex couples in the nation to marry were enough to convince the fledgling filmmaker that he had a chance to capture a historic event.

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