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In Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s documentary short, When I Knew, dozens of gays and lesbians recount the moment they first became aware of their homosexuality. It was a film so personal to the directors that they appear in it – right at the beginning. “We’ve never put ourselves in a film,” Barbato told The Advocate. “We’d never even considered it.” Before this, their only personal intrusion into a project was a disembodied voice asking questions. “It’s so much easier to be behind the camera,” Bailey said. When the film, which premieres June 25 on Cinemax, screened at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival last month, HBO set up its video booth again for festival-goers to confess their realizations into the camera. This is one of those stories.

When I Knew will screen in P-Town at the P-Town Film Festival, Friday, June 20, (with the WIK video booth in tow), then at the Castro in San Francisco at Frameline, Sunday, June 22.

The first day of Merge Miami came to a successful end with a fashion show by designer Jay McCarroll, subject of the film Eleven Minutes and winner of season one of Project Runway.

The first day of Merge Miami ended with a fashion show by designer and winner of Project Runway Season One, Jay McCarroll, on the rooftop of the Catalina Hotel.

Part 1 of Merge Miami’s panel and events. Panelists Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey screened their When I Knew documentary at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Now you know.

On Sunday, April 27, World of Wonder’s witty and poignant short doc When I Knew will screen at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival at 7:15PM at Regal Cinemas 17. A Q&A with the film’s directors Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey will follow, along with screenings of the when-I-knew confessions recorded in the HBO video booth, which will later be posted on Wheniknew.com.