Michele Josue

Michele Josue is an award-winning filmmaker born to Filipino immigrant parents and raised in Maryland. Michele lives in Los Angeles and has been directing, producing, and editing documentary internationally for over a decade for various schools and non-profit organizations. “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” is her feature film debut.

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Memory and Legacy: Matthew Shepard, 16 Years Later

Posted by Michele Josue on October 12, 2014

Sixteen years ago this month, on the night of October 6, 1998, two young men robbed, kidnapped, and tortured a young man named Matthew Shepard simply because he was gay.

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