from the SF gate
Jul. 14th, 2004 03:59 pmhttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/14/BAGCA7JA2D29.DTL
Student's film winning awards, changing minds
Documentary on S.F.'s gay weddings has helped break down stereotypes
[by] Janine DeFao, Chronicle Staff Writer
Zach Landman had planned to do a documentary for his high school senior project on a subject he knew intimately -- the pressures of high school sports.
Instead, the linebacker at Orinda's Miramonte High ended up tackling the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage, which he'd barely given a passing thought.
"I don't really have any gay friends or family members," Landman, 17, recalled last week. "I honestly couldn't have told you if I was for it or against it."
But news images of gays and lesbians lining up outside San Francisco City Hall on a rainy morning in February to be the first same-sex couples in the nation to marry were enough to convince the fledgling filmmaker that he had a chance to ( capture a historic event. )