{"id":7160,"title":"Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir Bless Bless Prods.","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/susan-muska-and-greta-olafsdottir-bless-bless-prods","version":"70c021645ed98baea11041342e5e864be5174f571c8bd5acbded6e47053a9390","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:20+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Bless Bless Prods.","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir Bless Bless Prods.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/susan-muska-and-greta-olafsdottir-bless-bless-prods.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7160.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1206},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":730}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Susan Muska \u0026 Greta Olafsdottir, Bless Bless Productions Brief Bio: We have been making documentary films together for fifteen years, about queer and women\u0027s issues. Aside from \u0022Edie \u0026 Thea: A Very Long Engagement,\u0022 these include \u0022The Brandon Teena Story\u0022 (1998), \u0022Through the Lens: Sigrid Zo\u00CEga \u0026 August Sander\u0022 (2000), \u0022Women the Forgotten Face of War\u0022 (2002), and presently working on two documentaries, one in Iceland called \u0022Girls Gone Bad\u0022 about women involved in a Salvation Army abuse scandal that was hushed up, and a feature documentary about the lives of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (an exception to the queer-women theme). We are attracted to stories of individuals thriving (or not) in the face of discrimination and the fleshing out of these histories to bring issues alive. We met Edie and Thea by coincidence and were very drawn to their desire to get married despite significant hurdles, like being ill and quadriplegic and having to travel to Canada as the nearest spot offering recognized civil marriage to same-sex couples. We also both teach at the university and community college level, and Greta is an advisor to the Icelandic Film Center about documentary and narrative short films.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1206,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}