In Chasing Chasing Amy, filmmaker Sav Rodgers goes on a journey of self-discovery while making a documentary on the development and creation of Kevin Smith’s controversial LGBTQ+ film Chasing Amy. The film explores the transformational impact of a ’90s rom-com on a 12-year-old kid from Kansas, coming of age and contending with queer identity.
Learn more about the origins of Chasing Amy and Rodgers’ journey to make his documentary with IndieWire, the Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and the British Film Institute. Then check out critic Emily Maesar and writer Samantha Allen’s thoughts about their own experience with the Kevin Smith film and Rodgers’ reframing of it on MovieJawn and Them respectively.
See Chasing Amy at IU Cinema this Friday, and then check out Chasing Chasing Amy on Saturday, followed by a Q&A with its producer, Lela Meadow-Conner.
“Chasing Chasing Amy comes closest to any modern documentary to actually solve the problem of, or at least offer something meaningful to the conversation about, whether or not it’s appropriate to like something deeply problematic.” — Maria Lattila, Film Stories
Chasing Chasing Amy will be screened at IU Cinema on February 22 as part of the Re:Made series.