Decades in the Making: Sandusky's Todd Stephens Completes his Ohio Trilogy with 'Swan Song'
/ Sandusky-born filmmaker Todd Stephens uses his hometown as the backdrop for his fictionalized memoir "Swan Song." The fictionalized memoir centers around an older gay man in Stephen’s hometown of Sandusky exploring how life has changed over the decades. Just like the first two films in Stephens’ Ohio Trilogy, “Edge of 17” and “Gypsy 83,” “Swan Song” is a coming-of-age story set in Sandusky, except this film trades in youthful revelation for a sense of rediscovery. “It's based on a man that I grew up sort of idolizing when I was a kid, and his name was Pat Pitsenbarger,”...
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