It’s frustrating for those following the current Prop 8 trial in San Francisco to have to wade through the blogs and tweets in order to piece the case together. The Supreme Court has barred the use of live or delayed video of the trial, and understandably, much of the information coming out via bloggers is incomplete, given the difficulty of transferring an ongoing trial immediately into words. But an answer seems to have arrived. It appears we’ll now be able to watch daily re-enactments of the trial, starting on Tuesday, January 19th, thanks to John Ireland.
John Ireland, (pictured above) is a freelance journalist and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles, who has "focused on the gay rights movement, the electoral process and the effects of linguistics and semantics on everyday exchanges that connect us to one another." You can check out Ireland’s previous works by clicking here.
Ireland made this statement over the weekend… “People want to see this drama unfold and there is a tremendous narrative that was propelled by that first day of testimony…. I don’t think you need to be gay or lesbian to see there is a tremendous human story being told but so few people are actually hearing it.” Read the full interview here… On Top Magazine Interview with John Ireland
The project’s mission, according to their website…
In its January 13, 2010 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the public broadcasting of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a U.S. District Court case challenging the constitutional validity of California Proposition 8. Working from partial transcripts and first-hand accounts from bloggers who are present at the trial, we will re-create the trial proceedings and post them here, for public viewing.
Ireland posted this Craigslist Ad to get the people he needed for the project. All work on the project is volunteer only.
Apparently Day One of the trial has been filmed over the weekend and is in the bag, to be released Tuesday, January 19th. We’ll post the ongoing video series here for you to see. For updates on the project follow this link… Prop 8 Trial Re-enactment
These are photos of some of the "characters" involved in the case…
Pictured, left to right…VAUGHN WALKER (JUDGE) – DAVID BOIES (PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY) – TED OLSON (PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY) – DAVID KATAMI (PLAINTIFF) – JEFFREY ZARILLO (PLAINTIFF) – KRISTEN PERRY (PLAINTIFF) – SANDY STIER (PLAINTIFF)
