SHORT
GRAND PRIX COMPETITION
FREEHELD
USA,
2006, 38 min., English
Director:
Cynthia Wade
Producer: Vanessa Roth
Cinematography: Cynthia Wade
Editing: David Teague
Music: Rob Schwimmer
Sound: several
Production Company: Lieutenant
Films, Inc.
Print Source:
Cynthia Wade
170 Prospect Park West #4R
Brooklyn, NY 11215
USA
Tel.: 718 768 2310
Fax: 718 768 2487
e-mail: cwade@cynthiawade.com
www.freeheld.com
Freeheld
Lieutenant
Laurel Hester is dying of lung cancer. But her biggest battle
isn’t against the disease that will eventually take
her life, it’s against the elected officials of her
New Jersey county, The Freeholders, who are denying her her
dying wish: to provide for the woman she loves. After 25 years
spent serving her community, the veteran police detective
is desperate to ensure a financially stable future for her
life-partner, but the county’s elected officials won’t
let her transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie
Andree. Without the pension Andree will lose the home that
she and Hester have built together and Hester will not stand
to see that happen. As friends and neighbors rally around
the couple, Hester and Andree set off on a powerful and heart-breaking
race against time.
 Cynthia
Wade, documentarian and cinematographer, holds BA from Smith
College and MA in Documentary film Production from Stanford
University. She has been a director of photography for many
TV stations including PBS, HBO/Cinemax, A&E, MTV and TNT.
Wade runs a Brooklyn-based video production company, Cynthia
Wade Productions, Inc., and teaches advanced digital cinematography
at the New School in NYC.
Filmography
(as a director):
Freeheld
(2007), Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival;
Shelter Dogs (2003);
Grist for the Mill (1999);
Almost Home (1996);
Kismet (1992);
Dream Lovers (1989).
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MARCH 31 AT 3:00 PM./CHOPIN THEATRE 
SCREENING WITH RECYCLED
LIFE
SUNDAY,
APRIL 1 AT 7:30 PM./CHOPIN THEATRE
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LIFE
TUESDAY,
APRIL 3 AT 9:00 PM./PORTAGE THEATRE
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