“I wanted to use this as a way to tell the story of telling my story — to put that out there for everyone to see.”
Coming out of the closet is a long, confusing, and often repetitive process that isn't always as simple as you plan it to be.
No one knows this better than Alden Peters, a film student at at New York University’s Tisch School.
He captured a year of his life on film as he came out to friends and family, in what turned out to be his first full-length documentary Coming Out.
As I was going through [coming out], one of the things I was really looking at was YouTube videos of people coming out. I wanted to see more than that—more than just hearing somebody tell a story. I wanted to know what it was like.
