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Chasing Chasing Amy, a Documentary Exploring LGBTQ+ Belonging in Film, Showing in Theaters

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By Kelcie McKenney

Director Sav Rodgers’ documentary Chasing Chasing Amy is coming to select theaters on November 1st. 

The theater release comes just over a year after debuting at Tribeca Film Festival in June 2023 and an award-filled stretch on the festival circuit—Best Documentary at FilmOut San Diego, 2023 Popcorn List Selection at Festival Favorite Films, and Grand Jury Prize Winner at Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival, to name a few amidst the 76 different festival showing.

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Filmmaker Sav Rodger’s Chasing Chasing Amy dives into the significance of LGBTQ+ representation in media

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By Emily Laptad
Photos by Travis Young

When 12-year-old Sav Rodgers discovered the 1998 film Chasing Amy, it quickly became his life raft while growing up in Johnson County, Kansas. Not only did the film include LGBTQ+ representation young he desperately needed, but the queer characters were good, intelligent, funny, and out—something Rodgers had very little exposure to.

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Badass Babe Sav Rodgers: Queer Stories on Film

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By Kelcie McKenney

When Sav Rodgers walks into a room, he instantly fills it with radiating, invigorating energy. Always wearing a baseball hat—often repping KC on it—he’ll wrap you up in a rush of ideas, complex conversation, questions about who you are, how you’re feeling, what you’re thinking, and why you’re here. At 24 years old, Rodgers is a force to be reckoned with—enough so that you often forget just how young he is.

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Photo by Travis Young

Today, Rodgers’s Ted Talk went live.

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