World Premiere:CLAMBAKE Screening – QFilms Long Beach

2015, USA, 90 min., Documentary

Dir./Writer: Andrea Meyerson

The year was 1984. A handful of entrepreneurial women innkeepers in Provincetown, Mass. gathered together with a mission:  to figure out how they could entice summer guests to return during the seaside town’s offseason. Without the luxury of social media, or even email, the women hand-wrote letters to all their past guests, inviting them to come enjoy the beautiful autumn scenery-with a clambake and some local entertainment thrown in. They called it “Women’s Weekend,” and over the next three decades, it spawned numerous other lesbian gatherings in Provincetown, expanding from modest grassroots beginning to eventually become one of the most popular lesbian events in the world.