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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Linda Farin papers
Creator:
Farin, Linda
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1942
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 document box)
Date (inclusive): 1986-1997
Date (bulk): bulk 1986-1989
Abstract: Linda Farin was a successful lawyer in Austin, Texas. After seeing Donna Deitch's film
Desert Hearts, she became inspired to produce a realistic and positive lesbian erotic film and began forming a cohort of lesbian writers
in order to develop a script. This collection contains documentation relating to the production, distribution, and reception
of the film
Waking Up: A Lesson in Love.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Linda Farin, 1990.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library .
[Identification of item], Linda Farin Papers (Collection 1942). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2016.
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June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9969372173606533
Linda Farin was a successful lawyer in Austin, Texas. After seeing Donna Deitch's film
Desert Hearts, she became inspired and challenged to produce a realistic and positive lesbian erotic film and began forming a cohort of
lesbian writers in order to develop a script. Through her participation with Liatris Media, which produced the Third Wave
Women's International Film and Video Festival from 1986-1989, Linda Farin met Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss. Greta Schiller
became involved in the project in the early stages anonymously and later added her name to the project as Director. Farin
formed both Foosh Productions and Anonymous Was a Woman Ltd. in order to help fund the project. Anonymous Was A Woman Ltd.
was later dissolved in 1996.
| June 1985 | Release of Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, Greta Schiller's first full length documentary. |
| May 1988 | Foosh Productions Incorporated. |
| June 1988 | Taping and production of Waking Up: A Lesson in Love |
| September 1988 | Release of Waking Up: A Lesson in Love |
The Linda Farin Papers document the conception, production, distribution, and reception of the film
Waking Up: A Lesson in Love, produced and co-written by Linda Farin. These papers include script drafts, financial documents, advertising strategies,
copy reviews and correspondence.
Throughout the production of the film, funding issues as well as philosophical challenges arose from both within the circle
of people working on the film as well as from the outside. In her story "The Making of a Lesbian Erotic Video" (contained
within the collection), Lindsey Lane (co-writer and co-producer) outlines some of her frustrations with the effects of both
homophobia and the difficulties of producing independent films. Much of the correspondence between reviewers and distributors
reflects some of this conflict as well. While
Waking Up: A Lesson in Love was produced in the late 1980's, the tensions of the "sex wars" of the late seventies and early eighties are present in the
collection. Many of the reviewers and distributors approached by Linda Farin were generally uncomfortable with the portrayal
of lesbian casual sex in the film in contrast to some of the more sex positive publications which chose to advertise and review
the film such as
On Our Backs magazine or
Forum.
Arranged chronologically.
As of 1997, the film
Waking Up: A Lesson in Love, was still available for purchase through Naiad Press, which is no longer in operation. The film is out of print and is held
at the San Francisco Public Library, Cornell University Library, Michigan State University Library, and UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lesbian motion picture producers and directors -- Archives.
Film scripts.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
University of California, Los Angeles. Library
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA
Farin, Linda -- Archives