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My Prairie Home is a canadien film of genre Biography released in USA on 17 january 2014

My Prairie Home (2013)

My Prairie Home
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Released in USA 17 january 2014
Length 1h17
OriginCanada
Genres Biography,    Documentary,    Musical
Rating62% 3.1383853.1383853.1383853.1383853.138385

My Prairie Home is a 2013 Canadian documentary film about transgender singer/songwriter Rae Spoon, directed by Chelsea McMullan. It features musical performances and interviews about Spoon’s troubled childhood, raised by Pentecostal parents obsessed with the Rapture and an abusive father, as well as Spoon's past experiences with gender confusion. The film was shot in the Canadian Prairies, including the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller. My Prairie Home was produced by Lea Marin for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

McMullan has said she first found out about Spoon around 2007, when she was making a western-themed NFB film set in the B.C. Interior. She was searching for "subversive" country-folk soundtrack music when someone suggested Spoon. According to Spoon, the idea for the documentary came out of a discussion with McMullan in 2010 about the musician’s perceived lack of marketability, a criticism Spoon sometimes receives when applying for music video funding.

Spoon has stated that it had initially been difficult for to open up so much about personal details, so McMullan suggested writing it down before they talked. Spoon did so, and ended up writing the book First Spring Grass Fire, which was published in the fall of 2012. The book was a nominee for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards in the Transgender Fiction category, and Spoon was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.



^ Lederman, Marsha (28 September 2013). "My Prairie Home". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 6 November 2013.

^ Gillis, Carla (12–19 September 2013). "A revealing NFB doc and a heartbreakingly honest album explore an artist’s roots and embrace new ideas about gender". Now. Retrieved 6 November 2013.

^ McSorley, Tim (21 October 2013). "A beautiful, sometimes haunting, home on the prairies: Rae Spoon's My Prairie Home". The Media Coop. Retrieved 6 November 2013.

^ Kelly, Brendan (13 December 2013). "Rae Spoon is different by nature, and proud of it". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 13 December 2013.

^ Takeuchi, Craig (27 September 2013). "My Prairie Home director finds a sense of place in Rae Spoon's music". Georgia Straight. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

^ "Rae Spoon, Kamal Al-Solaylee among Canadian Lambda nominees". Quill & Quire, March 6, 2013.

^ Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Writers' Trust of Canada.
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