The Mens Story Project Building Strength Creating Peace

Filmed in Berkeley California with a standingroomonly audience this film shows the powerful debut of the Mens Story Project a bold innovative storytelling and dialogue project exploring social ideas about masculinity for the purpose of health and justice The stories address topics including friendship between men fatherhood struggles with religion homophobia and HIVAIDS coming out to parents intersections of race disability and sexuality testicular cancer and personal wholeness images of black masculinity a journey from perpetrating partner violence to becoming an antiviolence activist mens public restroom rituals spirituality and transformation in prison transgender identity and gender fluidity challenging a fathers racism being raised without male role models desire to be in a committed relationship and gratitude to lifelong mentors