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Audience Rating: (1) login to rate this Embed		Directed by Brian Schirber Kirstin Nelson Produced by Listen Up! Perpich Center for Arts Educatio Genre Documentary Short Film Runtime: 6 min Release Date: April 2008 Filmmaker's Website Send to Friends URL:
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Plot Outline

When coming out makes Ron a target for attack, he finds a school where respect and acceptance are taught alongside Math and English.

Awards
Winner of the Peter Yarrow Peace in Our Classrooms Award

Filmmaker Notes

More About Homecoming from the Perpich Center for Arts Education

Homecoming evolved over four months beginning with the concept of hate crimes against youth in rural Minnesota. Six seniors from the Arts High School at the Perpich Center for Arts Education interviewed several youth in small towns that had been discriminated against at their schools for their sexual orientation and lifestyle. As the project progressed, one individual’s story stood out from the rest specifically because this student attended the Arts High School, which is in itself a unique environment conducive to creativity and learning.

Although four students dropped the project, Kirstin Nelson and Brian Schirber where determined to see the project completed and to see that Ron Everson’s story was told. Half the film was shot in Lakeville, Minnesota where the discrimination took place. This was juxtaposed with footage from Perpich where Ron flourished. Ron, a Creative Writing major, graduated in 2004 and is currently living in Chicago. His story confirms how essential a school environment is to the well-being of young adults and how this setting should be supportive of students of all backgrounds and orientations.

FILMMAKER BIOS

Brian Schirber, Co-Director

Brian Schirber graduated from the Arts High School at the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota in 2004 where he majored in media arts for two years. Prior to his acceptance to Perpich, he studied traditional photography at St. John’s Prepatory School in St. Joseph, MN. In 2003, Brian won the Silver Key Award in photography from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Brian’s work has been screened at various festivals across the nation in such places as Reel Teens Film and Video Festival in New York and the Atlanta Film and Video Festival. Brian is currently attending California College of Arts.

Kirstin Nelson, Co-Director

Kirstin Nelson graduated in 2004 from the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota where she majored in media arts for two years. Kirstin studied traditional and digital photography as well as film and video production. Her work has been exhibited and screened in many national festivals such as the Fledging Film Festival in Vermont and the Girls in the Director’s Chair exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2003, Kirstin won a Merit Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for her experimental video poem entitled Violet.